Blue Ridge Pain Management & Palliative Care PA
Blue Ridge Pain Management & Palliative Care PA was paid $22K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2024, across 18 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 99% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBLUE RIDGE PAIN MANAGEMENT & PALLIATIVE CARE PA
ASHEVILLE, NC 28803
ASHEVILLE, NC 28803
33aNPI1578618591assigned 01/23/2007
33bProvider typeSpecialist
28Total paid$22K
24GClaims15,509
24DCodes billed18
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Specialist providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#113 of 172
Median peer was paid$83K
This provider vs. median0.3×
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 | 2,399 | $5K | |
| 2019 | 2,628 | $4K | |
| 2020 | 2,440 | $4K | |
| 2021 | 3,174 | $4K | |
| 2022 | 2,511 | $3K | |
| 2023 | 2,229 | $1K | |
| 2024incomplete | 128 | $0.00 |
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 | 99% | 4,531 | 2,925 | $21K |
| J3301 | Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg | <1% | 441 | 268 | $129.74 |
| 80305 | <1% | 55 | 48 | $82.44 | |
| Q9966 | Low osmolar contrast material, 200-299 mg/ml iodine concentration, per ml | <1% | 128 | 82 | $3.90 |
| G8783 | Normal blood pressure reading documented, follow-up not required | 0% | 200 | 171 | $0.00 |
| G8427 | Eligible clinician attests to documenting in the medical record they obtained, updated, or reviewed the patient's current medications | 0% | 4,054 | 2,627 | $0.00 |
| G8730 | Pain assessment documented as positive using a standardized tool and a follow-up plan is documented | 0% | 1,622 | 1,264 | $0.00 |
| G9577 | Patients prescribed opiates for longer than six weeks | 0% | 31 | 28 | $0.00 |
| G8417 | Bmi is documented above normal parameters and a follow-up plan is documented | 0% | 1,561 | 999 | $0.00 |
| G9561 | Patients prescribed opiates for longer than six weeks | 0% | 14 | 14 | $0.00 |
| G9500 | Radiation exposure indices documented in final report for procedure using fluoroscopy | 0% | 405 | 355 | $0.00 |
| G9622 | Patient not identified as an unhealthy alcohol user when screened for unhealthy alcohol use using a systematic screening method | 0% | 375 | 246 | $0.00 |
6 more codes
| G9584 | Patient evaluated for risk of misuse of opiates by using a brief validated instrument (e.g., opioid risk tool, soapp-r) or patient interviewed at least once during opioid therapy | 0% | 27 | $0.00 |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | 0% | 39 | $0.00 |
| G8430 | Documentation of a medical reason(s) for not documenting, updating, or reviewing the patient's current medications list (e.g., patient is in an acute health crisis where time is of the essence and delay of treatment would jeopardize the patient's health status) | 0% | 1,298 | $0.00 |
| 1036F | 0% | 28 | $0.00 | |
| G8422 | Bmi not documented, documentation the patient is not eligible for bmi calculation | 0% | 412 | $0.00 |
| G9583 | Patients prescribed opiates for longer than six weeks | 0% | 288 | $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 officialBUZZANELL, CHARLES (PRESIDENT)