Buckner, James
Buckner, James was paid $161K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 75% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBUCKNER, JAMES
FRANKLIN, KY 42134
FRANKLIN, KY 42134
33aNPI1184771545assigned 01/05/2007
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$161K
24GClaims3,715
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Kentucky
Rank by total paid#289 of 683
Median peer was paid$123K
This provider vs. median1.3×
Peers share this provider's primary NPPES type and state. Size alone says nothing about billing quality: a big agency or a hospital system is expected to sit far above the median.
Box 24A · Dates of service
Paid by month
Paid that monthNov–Dec 2024: claims still arriving when the file was cut, so these months run low for every provider
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1,597 | $72K | |
| 2019 | 1,572 | $68K | |
| 2020 | 404 | $18K | |
| 2024incomplete | 142 | $3K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 75% | 2,348 | 2,173 | $120K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 19% | 656 | 613 | $31K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 2.1% | 144 | 138 | $3K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 1.8% | 259 | 223 | $3K |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | 1.7% | 219 | 202 | $3K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | <1% | 71 | 64 | $310.00 |
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | <1% | 18 | 18 | $208.00 |
Claims and beneficiary counts add up across code × month rows, so one patient seen every month counts many times. Rows with fewer than 12 claims are suppressed by HHS, so small lines can be missing.