Whitaker, Dick
Whitaker, Dick was paid $2.07M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 31 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 40% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoWHITAKER, DICK
FERRIDAY, LA 71334
FERRIDAY, LA 71334
33aNPI1235212457assigned 10/23/2006
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$2.07M
24GClaims107,438
24DCodes billed31
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#9 of 442
Median peer was paid$199K
This provider vs. median10×
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 | 12,692 | $320K | |
| 2019 | 15,477 | $317K | |
| 2020 | 13,394 | $239K | |
| 2021 | 13,554 | $254K | |
| 2022 | 12,668 | $235K | |
| 2023 | 19,439 | $321K | |
| 2024incomplete | 20,214 | $383K |
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 | 40% | 12,767 | 11,974 | $824K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 20% | 5,219 | 4,898 | $413K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 14% | 17,479 | 16,126 | $288K |
| V2203 | Spherocylinder, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 10% | 3,882 | 3,519 | $212K |
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 8.1% | 8,868 | 8,287 | $168K |
| 92012 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, intermediate, established patient | 2.4% | 1,478 | 1,369 | $50K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 1.6% | 3,231 | 3,016 | $33K |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | 1.0% | 1,170 | 1,036 | $21K |
| V2200 | Sphere, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d, per lens | <1% | 256 | 240 | $13K |
| 92341 | <1% | 1,264 | 1,193 | $13K | |
| V2104 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, 2.12 to 4.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 408 | 376 | $7K |
| 99211 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity | <1% | 494 | 446 | $5K |
19 more codes
| V2025 | Deluxe frame | <1% | 121 | $5K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) | <1% | 138 | $4K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | <1% | 15,068 | $4K |
| V2107 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plus or minus 4.25 to plus or minus 7.00 sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 188 | $4K |
| 3072F | <1% | 2,073 | $3K | |
| 92250 | <1% | 63 | $1K | |
| V2799 | Vision item or service, miscellaneous | <1% | 73 | $768.00 |
| 92020 | <1% | 27 | $255.43 | |
| 76514 | <1% | 14 | $48.66 | |
| V2745 | Addition to lens; tint, any color, solid, gradient or equal, excludes photochromatic, any lens material, per lens | <1% | 43 | $9.00 |
| 2022F | <1% | 2,049 | $6.30 | |
| 5010F | 0% | 2,005 | $0.00 | |
| 2021F | 0% | 1,099 | $0.00 | |
| 4004F | 0% | 2,516 | $0.00 | |
| G8427 | Eligible clinician attests to documenting in the medical record they obtained, updated, or reviewed the patient's current medications | 0% | 15,753 | $0.00 |
| 99199 | Unlisted special service, procedure or report | 0% | 122 | $0.00 |
| 2027F | 0% | 193 | $0.00 | |
| 1036F | 0% | 9,337 | $0.00 | |
| 3284F | 0% | 40 | $0.00 |
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.