Houghton, Richard
Houghton, Richard was paid $44K by Medicaid between Feb 2018 and Feb 2023, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 92004, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient — 82% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoHOUGHTON, RICHARD
HIGHLAND, UT 84003
HIGHLAND, UT 84003
33aNPI1336241926assigned 09/02/2006
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$44K
24GClaims449
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2018 – Feb 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Utah
Rank by total paid#34 of 130
Median peer was paid$6K
This provider vs. median7.4×
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 | 73 | $7K | |
| 2019 | 34 | $4K | |
| 2020 | 97 | $8K | |
| 2021 | 139 | $14K | |
| 2022 | 92 | $9K | |
| 2023 | 14 | $2K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 82% | 267 | 263 | $36K |
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 17% | 55 | 54 | $7K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 1.3% | 99 | 98 | $573.72 |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | 0% | 28 | 28 | $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.