Physician
Caruso, Paul
Caruso, Paul was paid $34K by Medicaid between Oct 2018 and Jul 2020, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 99212, Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward — 52% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCARUSO, PAUL
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO 63701
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO 63701
33aNPI1417938754assigned 11/11/2005
33bProvider typeNeonatal-Perinatal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$34K
24GClaims947
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthOct 2018 – Jul 2020
Compared with peers
Next to other Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Physician providers in Missouri
Rank by total paid#31 of 51
Median peer was paid$56K
This provider vs. median0.6×
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 | 31 | $2K | |
| 2019 | 574 | $20K | |
| 2020 | 342 | $12K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | 52% | 647 | 629 | $17K |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | 22% | 162 | 158 | $7K |
| 99460 | 15% | 72 | 71 | $5K | |
| 99242 | 5.6% | 31 | 31 | $2K | |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 3.2% | 13 | 13 | $1K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 2.8% | 22 | 13 | $946.70 |
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.