Physician
Nichols, Robert
Nichols, Robert was paid $103K by Medicaid between Jan 2019 and Nov 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is 99215, doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex) — 69% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoNICHOLS, ROBERT
SANTA TERESA, NM 88008
SANTA TERESA, NM 88008
33aNPI1679634562assigned 12/13/2006
33bProvider typeFamily Medicine Physician
28Total paid$103K
24GClaims1,797
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJan 2019 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in New Mexico
Rank by total paid#84 of 148
Median peer was paid$167K
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 26 | $2K | |
| 2020 | 277 | $13K | |
| 2021 | 356 | $20K | |
| 2022 | 505 | $24K | |
| 2023 | 419 | $26K | |
| 2024incomplete | 214 | $18K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 69% | 495 | 460 | $70K |
| 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 | 14% | 163 | 158 | $14K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 9.9% | 145 | 138 | $10K |
| 87635 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe | 2.0% | 42 | 41 | $2K |
| 82044 | 1.8% | 309 | 292 | $2K | |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 238 | 225 | $1K |
| 86318 | <1% | 42 | 40 | $791.28 | |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | <1% | 40 | 38 | $707.67 |
| J1040 | Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 80 mg | <1% | 13 | 13 | $494.92 |
| 87880 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A | <1% | 27 | 27 | $459.94 |
| 81002 | <1% | 283 | 268 | $329.02 |
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.