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Brown, James

Brown, James was paid $582K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 18 billing codes. Its largest line is 92015, Determination of refractive state — 25% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBROWN, JAMES
BRUCE, MS 38915
33aNPI1447364005assigned 08/19/2006
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$582K
24GClaims13,748
24DCodes billed18
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Optometrist providers in Mississippi

Rank by total paid#51 of 437
Median peer was paid$91K
This provider vs. median6.4×

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$10K$20K$30K2018201920202021202220232024
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
20183,497$178K
20193,167$156K
20203,258$118K
20212,225$87K
20221,264$40K
2023307$3K
2024incomplete30$394.08
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
92015 Determination of refractive state 25% 4,488 4,037 $146K
92014 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient 23% 1,800 1,623 $136K
92004 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient 18% 1,063 974 $104K
92012 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, intermediate, established patient 12% 1,002 964 $67K
V2020 Frames, purchases 8.5% 1,670 1,484 $49K
92340 Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal 6.3% 2,133 1,928 $37K
V2100 Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens 3.2% 573 543 $19K
92002 2.7% 249 246 $15K
V2103 Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens <1% 209 195 $5K
92250 <1% 129 126 $3K
92083 <1% 13 12 $440.21
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity <1% 12 12 $193.39
6 more codes
92341 <1% 12 $161.67
G8428 Current list of medications not documented as obtained, updated, or reviewed by the eligible clinician, reason not given 0% 113 $0.00
G8732 No documentation of pain assessment, reason not given 0% 96 $0.00
V2784 Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens 0% 103 $0.00
3072F 0% 40 $0.00
V2410 Variable asphericity lens, single vision, full field, glass or plastic, per lens 0% 43 $0.00

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.