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Karges, Melvin

Karges, Melvin was paid $11K by Medicaid between Apr 2022 and Nov 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99202, Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, straightforward — 70% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoKARGES, MELVIN
JOPLIN, MO 64804
33aNPI1538198452assigned 07/02/2006
28Total paid$11K
24GClaims327
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthApr 2022 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician providers in Missouri

Rank by total paid#13 of 25
Median peer was paid$11K
This provider vs. median1.0×

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$2.0K$4.0K2018201920202021202220232024
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
202256$1K
2023105$4K
2024incomplete166$6K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99202 Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, straightforward 70% 260 188 $8K
95886 13% 36 28 $2K
95909 12% 18 15 $1K
95885 4.7% 13 12 $541.51

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.