Richards, Charles
Richards, Charles was paid $156K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2023, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 24% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoRICHARDS, CHARLES
HESPERIA, CA 92345
HESPERIA, CA 92345
33aNPI1679644124assigned 11/13/2006
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$156K
24GClaims9,162
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in California
Rank by total paid#394 of 1,899
Median peer was paid$23K
This provider vs. median6.9×
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 | 2,195 | $35K | |
| 2019 | 2,365 | $41K | |
| 2020 | 1,555 | $26K | |
| 2021 | 1,206 | $20K | |
| 2022 | 1,622 | $29K | |
| 2023 | 219 | $4K |
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 | 24% | 1,305 | 1,293 | $37K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 24% | 2,299 | 2,262 | $37K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 20% | 1,039 | 1,027 | $30K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 17% | 1,599 | 1,574 | $27K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 12% | 2,717 | 2,681 | $18K |
| 92341 | 2.2% | 145 | 144 | $3K | |
| 92225 | 1.9% | 58 | 58 | $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.