Buchanan, Christopher

Buchanan, Christopher was paid $27K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2023, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 99309, Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity — 83% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBUCHANAN, CHRISTOPHER
CANON CITY, CO 81212

33aNPI1245227040assigned 10/05/2005

33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician

28Total paid$27K

24GClaims3,740

24DCodes billed9

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Colorado

Rank by total paid#100 of 193

Median peer was paid$34K

This provider vs. median0.8×

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	983	$5K
2019	1,151	$7K
2020	644	$5K
2021	736	$7K
2022	209	$3K
2023	17	$382.31

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99309	Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity	83%	2,440	2,224	$23K
99310	Prolong nursin fac eval 15m	16%	409	363	$4K
99308	Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward	1.4%	31	29	$382.31
G8783	Normal blood pressure reading documented, follow-up not required	0%	88	80	$0.00
G8427	Eligible clinician attests to documenting in the medical record they obtained, updated, or reviewed the patient's current medications	0%	332	301	$0.00
G8482	Influenza immunization administered or previously received	0%	128	122	$0.00
G8483	Influenza immunization was not administered for reasons documented by clinician (e.g., patient allergy or other medical reasons, patient declined or other patient reasons, vaccine not available or other system reasons)	0%	140	128	$0.00
4004F		0%	153	142	$0.00
99356		0%	19	14	$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.