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Gardner, Kevin

Gardner, Kevin was paid $110K by Medicaid between Aug 2018 and Feb 2023, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 92004, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient — 72% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoGARDNER, KEVIN
JOPLIN, MO 64804
33aNPI1346358769assigned 08/27/2006
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$110K
24GClaims4,854
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthAug 2018 – Feb 2023
Compared with peers

Next to other Optometrist providers in Missouri

Rank by total paid#82 of 547
Median peer was paid$19K
This provider vs. median5.8×

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

$0$2.0K$4.0K$6.0K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
2018444$9K
20191,844$38K
20201,068$21K
2021658$14K
2022720$25K
2023120$4K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
92004 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient 72% 1,578 1,476 $79K
V2020 Frames, purchases 15% 766 710 $17K
92015 Determination of refractive state 7.8% 1,832 1,732 $9K
92340 Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal 3.3% 578 558 $4K
V2103 Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens <1% 42 27 $911.27
V2784 Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens <1% 58 26 $587.48

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.