Howard, James
Howard, James was paid $250K by Medicaid between Oct 2020 and Jul 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is V2020, Frames, purchases — 90% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoHOWARD, JAMES
CLEARFIELD, PA 16830
CLEARFIELD, PA 16830
33aNPI1447203062assigned 05/17/2006
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$250K
24GClaims3,562
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthOct 2020 – Jul 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Pennsylvania
Rank by total paid#110 of 983
Median peer was paid$20K
This provider vs. median12×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 126 | $9K | |
| 2021 | 802 | $52K | |
| 2022 | 1,107 | $82K | |
| 2023 | 1,060 | $75K | |
| 2024incomplete | 467 | $32K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 90% | 2,730 | 2,333 | $223K |
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 9.2% | 741 | 717 | $23K |
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | <1% | 55 | 55 | $2K |
| V2203 | Spherocylinder, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 24 | 24 | $776.00 |
| V2755 | U-v lens, per lens | <1% | 12 | 12 | $90.00 |
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.