Schmutz, Joseph

Schmutz, Joseph was paid $10K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2020, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 92004, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient — 71% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSCHMUTZ, JOSEPH
PROVO, UT 84604

33aNPI1477870814assigned 04/26/2010

33bProvider typeOphthalmology Physician

28Total paid$10K

24GClaims322

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2020

Compared with peers

Next to other Ophthalmology Physician providers in Utah

Rank by total paid#27 of 62

Median peer was paid$7K

This provider vs. median1.5×

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	96	$4K
2019	139	$5K
2020	87	$1K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
92004	Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient	71%	68	68	$7K
92014	Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient	22%	28	28	$2K
92015	Determination of refractive state	6.6%	226	226	$669.85

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.