Picken Welder Optometry, P.C.
Picken Welder Optometry, P.C. was paid $143K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is V2784, Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens — 32% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPICKEN WELDER OPTOMETRY, P.C.
MOORHEAD, MN 56560
MOORHEAD, MN 56560
33aNPI1639611791assigned 11/07/2016
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$143K
24GClaims4,678
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Minnesota
Rank by total paid#99 of 296
Median peer was paid$57K
This provider vs. median2.5×
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 | 508 | $610.00 | |
| 2019 | 761 | $24K | |
| 2020 | 663 | $21K | |
| 2021 | 891 | $33K | |
| 2022 | 803 | $30K | |
| 2023 | 509 | $14K | |
| 2024incomplete | 543 | $21K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | 32% | 1,006 | 887 | $45K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 23% | 1,133 | 981 | $33K |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | 12% | 443 | 370 | $17K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 12% | 819 | 711 | $16K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 11% | 218 | 186 | $15K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 8.2% | 1,009 | 902 | $12K |
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 3.1% | 50 | 49 | $4K |
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 officialPICKEN, JACE (OPTOMETRIST)