Physician
Ben E. Kitchens
Ben E. Kitchens was paid $84K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 18 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 35% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBEN E. KITCHENS
IUKA, MS 38852
IUKA, MS 38852
33aNPI1558533158assigned 03/24/2008
33bProvider typeFamily Medicine Physician
28Total paid$84K
24GClaims4,877
24DCodes billed18
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in Mississippi
Rank by total paid#139 of 306
Median peer was paid$59K
This provider vs. median1.4×
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 | 1,346 | $26K | |
| 2019 | 1,024 | $20K | |
| 2020 | 1,030 | $15K | |
| 2021 | 1,014 | $17K | |
| 2022 | 451 | $6K | |
| 2024incomplete | 12 | $118.90 |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 35% | 1,055 | 751 | $30K |
| 99214 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity | 28% | 625 | 478 | $24K |
| 99309 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity | 15% | 850 | 551 | $13K |
| 99307 | 12% | 1,183 | 1,144 | $10K | |
| 99308 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward | 3.2% | 184 | 136 | $3K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 2.7% | 46 | 26 | $2K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | <1% | 166 | 130 | $764.68 |
| 99310 | Prolong nursin fac eval 15m | <1% | 59 | 35 | $752.29 |
| 82805 | <1% | 72 | 58 | $643.32 | |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | <1% | 66 | 51 | $303.63 |
| 90756 | <1% | 14 | 12 | $106.64 | |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 91 | 75 | $72.90 |
6 more codes
| 90688 | <1% | 14 | $53.52 | |
| 81000 | <1% | 22 | $19.60 | |
| G0008 | Administration of influenza virus vaccine | 0% | 49 | $0.00 |
| 36416 | 0% | 22 | $0.00 | |
| G0439 | Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit | 0% | 12 | $0.00 |
| G8427 | Eligible clinician attests to documenting in the medical record they obtained, updated, or reviewed the patient's current medications | 0% | 347 | $0.00 |
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 officialKITCHENS, BEN (DOCTOR)