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Cook, Christopher

Cook, Christopher was paid $583K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2023, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 92015, Determination of refractive state — 35% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCOOK, CHRISTOPHER
BUCHANAN, GA 30113
33aNPI1215136296assigned 07/11/2007
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$583K
24GClaims10,849
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2023
Compared with peers

Next to other Optometrist providers in Georgia

Rank by total paid#6 of 71
Median peer was paid$10K
This provider vs. median56×

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

$0$10K$20K$30K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
20182,760$169K
20192,918$185K
20202,183$106K
20212,273$89K
2022485$21K
2023230$13K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
92015 Determination of refractive state 35% 5,624 5,267 $204K
92012 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, intermediate, established patient 23% 2,109 1,967 $136K
92002 20% 1,928 1,830 $119K
92004 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient 12% 628 614 $71K
92014 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient 9.0% 560 540 $53K

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.