Michels, John
Michels, John was paid $174K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 57% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMICHELS, JOHN
SHELDON, IA 51201
SHELDON, IA 51201
33aNPI1568776383assigned 08/04/2010
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$174K
24GClaims5,530
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Iowa
Rank by total paid#64 of 521
Median peer was paid$28K
This provider vs. median6.2×
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 | 691 | $31K | |
| 2019 | 816 | $28K | |
| 2020 | 1,110 | $33K | |
| 2021 | 983 | $29K | |
| 2022 | 697 | $19K | |
| 2023 | 870 | $23K | |
| 2024incomplete | 363 | $11K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 57% | 1,507 | 1,480 | $100K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 21% | 433 | 422 | $37K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 16% | 1,118 | 1,053 | $27K |
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 3.4% | 281 | 235 | $6K |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | 2.1% | 183 | 173 | $4K |
| V2756 | Eye glass case | <1% | 284 | 283 | $293.76 |
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | <1% | 36 | 24 | $72.52 |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 0% | 1,661 | 1,620 | $0.00 |
| V2760 | Scratch resistant coating, per lens | 0% | 27 | 27 | $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.