Mountain Empire Cataract & Eye Surgery Center
Mountain Empire Cataract & Eye Surgery Center was paid $930K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 66984, Extracapsular cataract removal with insertion of intraocular lens prosthesis — 91% of everything it billed.
BRISTOL, TN 37620
Next to other Ambulatory Surgical Clinic/Center providers in Tennessee
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1,535 | $65K | |
| 2019 | 912 | $115K | |
| 2020 | 589 | $99K | |
| 2021 | 800 | $157K | |
| 2022 | 698 | $177K | |
| 2023 | 534 | $195K | |
| 2024incomplete | 329 | $120K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66984 | Extracapsular cataract removal with insertion of intraocular lens prosthesis | 91% | 3,691 | 2,761 | $849K |
| 66821 | 7.3% | 841 | 611 | $68K | |
| 66982 | 1.3% | 41 | 39 | $12K | |
| G8907 | Patient documented not to have experienced any of the following events: a burn prior to discharge; a fall within the facility; wrong site/side/patient/procedure/implant event; or a hospital transfer or hospital admission upon discharge from the facility | 0% | 412 | 329 | $0.00 |
| G8918 | Patient without preoperative order for iv antibiotic surgical site infection (ssi) prophylaxis | 0% | 412 | 329 | $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.
Who's on the registration
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| David M Harman MD LLC | Forest, VA | $9.65M |
| Southeast Eye Specialists PLLC | Chattanooga, TN | $3.78M |
| Surgery Center of Central Virginia INC. | Forest, VA | $976K |
| Cataract and Refractive Surgery Center, LLC | Richmond, VA | $462K |
| David M Harman MD LLC | Appomattox, VA | $156K |
| Harman Eye Center of Lynchburg, LLC | Lynchburg, VA | $135K |
| Harman Eye Center of Danville LLC | Danville, VA | $52K |
| David M Harman MD LLC | Danville, VA | $15K |
| David M Harman MD LLC | Amherst, VA | $14K |
| Cataract and Refractive Surgery Center, LLC | Richmond, VA | $10K |
| Michael E. Green | Gallatin, TN | $7K |
| Winchester Eye Surgery Center, LLC | Winchester, VA | $5K |
| Harman Eye Center of Appomattox and Associates PLC | Appomattox, VA | $5K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.