Douglas O. Charters & Kenneth L. Hieb
Douglas O. Charters & Kenneth L. Hieb was paid $54K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Apr 2021, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 36% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDOUGLAS O. CHARTERS & KENNETH L. HIEB
VISALIA, CA 93277
VISALIA, CA 93277
33aNPI1669596839assigned 03/16/2007
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$54K
24GClaims2,828
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Apr 2021
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in California
Rank by total paid#694 of 1,899
Median peer was paid$23K
This provider vs. median2.4×
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 | 700 | $12K | |
| 2019 | 1,264 | $25K | |
| 2020 | 627 | $11K | |
| 2021 | 237 | $5K |
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 | 36% | 542 | 541 | $19K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 24% | 645 | 644 | $13K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 22% | 600 | 598 | $12K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 13% | 974 | 950 | $7K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 5.1% | 67 | 67 | $3K |
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 officialHIEB, KENNETH (PARTNER)