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Brown, James

Brown, James was paid $194K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and May 2021, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 36% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBROWN, JAMES
RIPLEY, MS 38663
33aNPI1508938812assigned 11/14/2006
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$194K
24GClaims4,376
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – May 2021
Compared with peers

Next to other Optometrist providers in Mississippi

Rank by total paid#148 of 437
Median peer was paid$91K
This provider vs. median2.1×

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$5.0K$10K2018201920202021202220232024
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
20181,448$65K
20191,219$58K
20201,242$54K
2021467$18K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
92014 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient 36% 815 766 $69K
92015 Determination of refractive state 28% 1,266 1,199 $55K
92004 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient 13% 246 240 $25K
92340 Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal 12% 1,325 1,237 $23K
V2020 Frames, purchases 6.3% 407 373 $12K
V2100 Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens 5.3% 317 292 $10K

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.