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Nelson, Richard

Nelson, Richard was paid $143K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 92004, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient — 93% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoNELSON, RICHARD
INDIANOLA, IA 50125
33aNPI1437137429assigned 01/09/2006
28Total paid$143K
24GClaims1,571
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist providers in Iowa

Rank by total paid#7 of 10
Median peer was paid$181K
This provider vs. median0.8×

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$2.5K$5.0K$7.5K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2018443$42K
2019411$38K
2020282$25K
2021227$20K
2022134$12K
202362$5K
2024incomplete12$1K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
92004 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient 93% 1,426 1,402 $134K
92014 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient 6.6% 145 137 $9K

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.