Medicaid Provider SpendingClaims paid 2018–2024 · HHS public file
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Clarkson Optometry, INC

Clarkson Optometry, INC was paid $5.37M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 13 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 26% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCLARKSON OPTOMETRY, INC
ELLISVILLE, MO 63011
33aNPI1497155345assigned 08/28/2014
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$5.37M
24GClaims185,829
24DCodes billed13
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Optometrist providers in Missouri

Rank by total paid#1 of 547
Median peer was paid$19K
This provider vs. median283×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official WACHTER, JAMES controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$100K$200K2018201920202021202220232024
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
20181,401$13K
2019482$7K
202019,219$353K
202133,512$651K
202240,111$1.18M
202348,923$1.85M
2024incomplete42,181$1.31M
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
92014 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient 26% 21,682 21,224 $1.42M
V2020 Frames, purchases 25% 44,212 43,132 $1.34M
92004 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient 25% 15,550 15,152 $1.33M
V2784 Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens 11% 15,943 15,368 $588K
V2103 Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens 7.0% 29,914 19,899 $374K
92015 Determination of refractive state 4.4% 50,730 49,335 $236K
V2100 Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens <1% 2,421 1,817 $37K
V2744 Tint, photochromatic, per lens <1% 4,364 3,394 $30K
V2203 Spherocylinder, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens <1% 309 175 $6K
V2104 Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, 2.12 to 4.00d cylinder, per lens <1% 344 231 $4K
V2781 Progressive lens, per lens <1% 78 38 $844.36
92250 <1% 13 12 $158.84
1 more codes
V2755 U-v lens, per lens <1% 269 $32.50

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.

From NPPES

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialWACHTER, JAMES (CHIEF PROFESSIONAL OFFICER)
Same official

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Clarkson Optometry Midwest INC.Louisville, KY$31K
Eyecare Associates, INC.Mobile, AL$23K
Bennett Optometry LLCAnn Arbor, MI$16K
Clarkson Optometry Midwest INC.Elizabethtown, KY$13K
Clarkson Optometry Midwest INCClarksville, IN$10K
Clarkson Optometry Midwest INC.Louisville, KY$3K

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.