Physician
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
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.