Fikes, Joseph

Fikes, Joseph was paid $179K by Medicaid between Feb 2018 and Feb 2020, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 45% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFIKES, JOSEPH
KNOXVILLE, TN 37932

33aNPI1417265414assigned 09/24/2010

33bProvider typePhysician Assistant

28Total paid$179K

24GClaims3,436

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthFeb 2018 – Feb 2020

Compared with peers

Next to other Physician Assistant providers in Tennessee

Rank by total paid#46 of 200

Median peer was paid$36K

This provider vs. median4.9×

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	1,007	$51K
2019	2,129	$111K
2020	300	$16K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99284	Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity	45%	1,393	1,266	$80K
99285	Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life	30%	783	714	$53K
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	25%	1,260	1,165	$45K

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.