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WK Ruston Pediatrics

WK Ruston Pediatrics was paid $164K by Medicaid between Oct 2023 and Dec 2024, across 21 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 31% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoWK RUSTON PEDIATRICS
RUSTON, LA 71270
33aNPI1679351795assigned 09/19/2023
33bProvider typePediatrics Physician
28Total paid$164K
24GClaims7,529
24DCodes billed21
24AFirst – last monthOct 2023 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Pediatrics Physician providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#147 of 230
Median peer was paid$429K
This provider vs. median0.4×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official WARD, MARY controls 17+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$10K$20K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
20231,686$31K
2024incomplete5,843$133K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 31% 1,519 1,136 $51K
99214 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity 22% 657 505 $36K
99392 Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, early childhood (1-4 years) 13% 420 312 $22K
99391 Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, infant (under 1 year) 13% 439 336 $21K
90471 Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine 6.2% 969 714 $10K
90472 Immunization administration, each additional vaccine (list separately) 4.1% 524 406 $7K
96110 Developmental screening, with scoring and documentation, per standardized instrument 4.1% 1,205 850 $7K
99393 Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, late childhood (5-11 years) 3.9% 111 95 $6K
92551 1.3% 321 259 $2K
90656 <1% 181 157 $534.65
90670 <1% 65 31 $516.25
99211 Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity <1% 83 77 $508.78
9 more codes
99173 <1% 366 $389.76
90677 <1% 115 $288.68
85018 <1% 95 $143.02
90474 <1% 16 $113.11
96161 <1% 51 $80.50
90647 <1% 121 $0.12
90723 0% 104 $0.00
90686 0% 124 $0.00
90680 0% 43 $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 officialWARD, MARY (SR. VP FINANCE)
Same official

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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.