Tucker, Joseph
Tucker, Joseph was paid $135K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and May 2023, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 44% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTUCKER, JOSEPH
BOWLING GREEN, KY 42103
BOWLING GREEN, KY 42103
33aNPI1679534457assigned 03/31/2006
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$135K
24GClaims4,439
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – May 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Kentucky
Rank by total paid#323 of 683
Median peer was paid$123K
This provider vs. median1.1×
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 | 1,606 | $53K | |
| 2019 | 222 | $8K | |
| 2022 | 1,679 | $48K | |
| 2023 | 932 | $26K |
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 | 44% | 907 | 881 | $60K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 20% | 298 | 287 | $26K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 16% | 740 | 713 | $22K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 11% | 495 | 483 | $14K |
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 5.5% | 448 | 366 | $7K |
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | 2.9% | 548 | 526 | $4K |
| 92250 | <1% | 14 | 14 | $497.01 | |
| 92341 | <1% | 13 | 12 | $363.00 | |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | <1% | 976 | 931 | $222.42 |
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.