Physician
Kern, Fred
Kern, Fred was paid $1.33M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2023, across 38 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 22% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoKERN, FRED
BRIDGEWATER, MA 02324
BRIDGEWATER, MA 02324
33aNPI1447245006assigned 09/20/2005
33bProvider typePediatrics Physician
28Total paid$1.33M
24GClaims32,727
24DCodes billed38
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Pediatrics Physician providers in Massachusetts
Rank by total paid#55 of 1,273
Median peer was paid$24K
This provider vs. median56×
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 | 7,386 | $287K | |
| 2019 | 7,756 | $299K | |
| 2020 | 5,358 | $223K | |
| 2021 | 6,365 | $267K | |
| 2022 | 5,385 | $240K | |
| 2023 | 477 | $19K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 22% | 3,131 | 2,867 | $296K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 22% | 5,069 | 4,679 | $293K |
| 90460 | Immunization administration through 18 years of age via any route, first or only component | 12% | 5,050 | 3,715 | $156K |
| 99393 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, late childhood (5-11 years) | 6.4% | 1,023 | 1,022 | $85K |
| 87635 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe | 5.7% | 1,478 | 1,394 | $76K |
| 99392 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, early childhood (1-4 years) | 5.6% | 895 | 895 | $75K |
| 87502 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid, influenza virus, for multiple types or subtypes, includes all targets | 2.9% | 538 | 528 | $39K |
| 99394 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, adolescent (12-17 years) | 2.8% | 409 | 408 | $37K |
| 90461 | 2.7% | 1,065 | 1,057 | $37K | |
| S0302 | Completed early periodic screening diagnosis and treatment (epsdt) service (list in addition to code for appropriate evaluation and management service) | 2.6% | 3,834 | 3,822 | $35K |
| 99391 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, infant (under 1 year) | 2.6% | 444 | 443 | $35K |
| 87651 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Streptococcus, group A, amplified probe | 2.5% | 1,165 | 1,139 | $34K |
26 more codes
| G2023 | Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source | 2.2% | 1,242 | $30K |
| 96110 | Developmental screening, with scoring and documentation, per standardized instrument | 1.7% | 2,048 | $23K |
| 96127 | 1.5% | 1,847 | $20K | |
| 92587 | 1.2% | 457 | $16K | |
| 99177 | <1% | 438 | $7K | |
| 99173 | <1% | 311 | $7K | |
| 0071A | <1% | 122 | $6K | |
| 97803 | <1% | 54 | $5K | |
| 0072A | <1% | 104 | $5K | |
| 83655 | <1% | 304 | $4K | |
| 87880 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A | <1% | 121 | $3K |
| 36416 | <1% | 194 | $2K | |
| 90471 | Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine | <1% | 91 | $2K |
| 87634 | <1% | 28 | $2K | |
| 94760 | <1% | 710 | $2K | |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | <1% | 41 | $1K |
| 85018 | <1% | 359 | $852.16 | |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | <1% | 41 | $744.69 |
| 0081A | <1% | 13 | $596.44 | |
| 0001A | <1% | 12 | $550.56 | |
| 0074A | <1% | 12 | $550.56 | |
| 92552 | <1% | 16 | $260.96 | |
| 87807 | <1% | 15 | $164.10 | |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | <1% | 12 | $146.52 |
| 81002 | <1% | 21 | $53.97 | |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 13 | $28.86 |
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.