Wardell, Pete
Wardell, Pete was paid $1.53M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 16 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 44% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoWARDELL, PETE
NATCHITOCHES, LA 71457
NATCHITOCHES, LA 71457
33aNPI1467495382assigned 06/14/2006
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$1.53M
24GClaims57,783
24DCodes billed16
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#25 of 442
Median peer was paid$199K
This provider vs. median7.7×
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 | 6,058 | $171K | |
| 2019 | 9,745 | $245K | |
| 2020 | 9,351 | $250K | |
| 2021 | 10,421 | $278K | |
| 2022 | 6,963 | $193K | |
| 2023 | 8,321 | $216K | |
| 2024incomplete | 6,924 | $173K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 44% | 10,098 | 9,309 | $672K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 22% | 3,925 | 3,671 | $330K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 11% | 11,565 | 10,406 | $170K |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | 6.3% | 5,291 | 4,809 | $96K |
| 99211 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity | 4.9% | 5,928 | 5,704 | $75K |
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 4.6% | 4,163 | 3,768 | $71K |
| 92012 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, intermediate, established patient | 2.8% | 1,133 | 887 | $43K |
| V2200 | Sphere, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d, per lens | 2.2% | 657 | 571 | $33K |
| V2203 | Spherocylinder, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 1.2% | 315 | 286 | $18K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | <1% | 1,201 | 1,155 | $14K |
| 92250 | <1% | 99 | 92 | $3K | |
| V2799 | Vision item or service, miscellaneous | <1% | 201 | 185 | $2K |
4 more codes
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.