Melanie Louise Hamiel, Od, PLLC
Melanie Louise Hamiel, Od, PLLC was paid $76K by Medicaid between Sep 2021 and Oct 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 92004, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient — 87% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMELANIE LOUISE HAMIEL, OD, PLLC
RAPID CITY, SD 57701
RAPID CITY, SD 57701
33aNPI1669143111assigned 09/24/2021
33bProvider typeCorneal and Contact Management Optometrist
28Total paid$76K
24GClaims1,396
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthSep 2021 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist providers in South Dakota
Rank by total paid#4 of 5
Median peer was paid$121K
This provider vs. median0.6×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 179 | $11K | |
| 2022 | 436 | $21K | |
| 2023 | 341 | $18K | |
| 2024incomplete | 440 | $25K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 87% | 597 | 546 | $66K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 11% | 786 | 724 | $8K |
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 2.0% | 13 | 13 | $2K |
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 officialHAMIEL, MELANIE (OPTOMETRIST/OWNER)