Physician
Close, Benjamin
Close, Benjamin was paid $689K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 14 billing codes. Its largest line is 95004, Percutaneous tests with allergenic extracts, immediate type reaction — 25% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCLOSE, BENJAMIN
ALEXANDRIA, LA 71303
ALEXANDRIA, LA 71303
33aNPI1730185802assigned 06/23/2005
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$689K
24GClaims18,406
24DCodes billed14
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#32 of 290
Median peer was paid$27K
This provider vs. median26×
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 | 2,420 | $71K | |
| 2019 | 3,285 | $101K | |
| 2020 | 2,261 | $66K | |
| 2021 | 2,058 | $78K | |
| 2022 | 1,975 | $72K | |
| 2023 | 3,258 | $154K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,149 | $146K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95004 | Percutaneous tests with allergenic extracts, immediate type reaction | 25% | 1,130 | 957 | $172K |
| 95165 | Professional services for the supervision of preparation and provision of antigens for allergen immunotherapy, multiple dose vials | 24% | 1,284 | 1,058 | $162K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 15% | 3,286 | 2,918 | $105K |
| 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 | 12% | 1,892 | 1,663 | $85K |
| 95117 | 6.6% | 6,082 | 2,519 | $46K | |
| 96401 | 6.1% | 1,462 | 1,025 | $42K | |
| 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 | 5.4% | 483 | 418 | $37K |
| 94010 | 2.1% | 858 | 811 | $15K | |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 1.6% | 226 | 195 | $11K |
| 95115 | <1% | 1,168 | 416 | $7K | |
| 95012 | <1% | 369 | 345 | $4K | |
| 94060 | <1% | 41 | 39 | $1K |
2 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.