Physician
Bell, James
Bell, James was paid $654K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2023, across 28 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 35% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBELL, JAMES
CHICOPEE, MA 01020
CHICOPEE, MA 01020
33aNPI1386603918assigned 03/22/2006
33bProvider typePediatrics Physician
28Total paid$654K
24GClaims16,934
24DCodes billed28
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Pediatrics Physician providers in Massachusetts
Rank by total paid#116 of 1,273
Median peer was paid$24K
This provider vs. median27×
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 | 2,250 | $77K | |
| 2019 | 2,544 | $83K | |
| 2020 | 2,479 | $94K | |
| 2021 | 4,539 | $186K | |
| 2022 | 4,133 | $173K | |
| 2023 | 989 | $41K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 35% | 3,433 | 3,223 | $229K |
| 90460 | Immunization administration through 18 years of age via any route, first or only component | 13% | 2,465 | 2,187 | $83K |
| 99393 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, late childhood (5-11 years) | 7.6% | 537 | 537 | $50K |
| 99392 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, early childhood (1-4 years) | 6.3% | 426 | 426 | $41K |
| 87635 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe | 6.1% | 753 | 733 | $40K |
| 99214 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity | 5.5% | 362 | 347 | $36K |
| 99391 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, infant (under 1 year) | 5.4% | 387 | 375 | $35K |
| S0302 | Completed early periodic screening diagnosis and treatment (epsdt) service (list in addition to code for appropriate evaluation and management service) | 3.9% | 2,679 | 2,671 | $25K |
| 90461 | 3.6% | 645 | 644 | $23K | |
| 99394 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, adolescent (12-17 years) | 3.2% | 206 | 206 | $21K |
| 96110 | Developmental screening, with scoring and documentation, per standardized instrument | 2.2% | 1,360 | 1,358 | $14K |
| 99173 | 1.5% | 428 | 428 | $10K |
16 more codes
| G2023 | Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source | 1.4% | 202 | $9K |
| 87502 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid, influenza virus, for multiple types or subtypes, includes all targets | 1.2% | 135 | $8K |
| 96127 | 1.2% | 1,208 | $8K | |
| 92587 | <1% | 153 | $5K | |
| 87651 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Streptococcus, group A, amplified probe | <1% | 158 | $4K |
| 85018 | <1% | 982 | $2K | |
| 87880 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A | <1% | 178 | $2K |
| 0071A | <1% | 35 | $2K | |
| 0072A | <1% | 29 | $1K | |
| 0001A | <1% | 25 | $1K | |
| 90688 | <1% | 32 | $720.00 | |
| 90471 | Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine | <1% | 26 | $497.64 |
| 83655 | <1% | 26 | $338.00 | |
| 99177 | <1% | 26 | $278.33 | |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | <1% | 26 | $239.72 |
| 36416 | 0% | 12 | $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.