Physician
Vest, Bruce
Vest, Bruce was paid $176K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 19 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 38% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoVEST, BRUCE
ALTON, IL 62002
ALTON, IL 62002
33aNPI1710910583assigned 07/07/2006
33bProvider typeOrthopaedic Surgery Physician
28Total paid$176K
24GClaims9,305
24DCodes billed19
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Orthopaedic Surgery Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#37 of 422
Median peer was paid$21K
This provider vs. median8.5×
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 | 1,402 | $18K | |
| 2019 | 1,019 | $12K | |
| 2020 | 626 | $5K | |
| 2021 | 1,466 | $28K | |
| 2022 | 1,539 | $35K | |
| 2023 | 1,685 | $37K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,568 | $41K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 38% | 3,885 | 3,304 | $67K |
| 20610 | 15% | 1,103 | 693 | $26K | |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 14% | 626 | 555 | $24K |
| J0702 | Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg | 9.8% | 1,838 | 1,560 | $17K |
| 99204 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity | 6.5% | 161 | 130 | $11K |
| 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 | 5.8% | 371 | 312 | $10K |
| 73610 | 3.9% | 260 | 172 | $7K | |
| 73562 | 2.4% | 304 | 231 | $4K | |
| 97140 | Manual therapy techniques, each 15 minutes (e.g., mobilization/manipulation, manual lymphatic drainage) | 1.2% | 183 | 40 | $2K |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | <1% | 300 | 253 | $2K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 19 | 18 | $1K |
| 97110 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion | <1% | 45 | 12 | $958.30 |
7 more codes
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.