Hicks, Thomas
Hicks, Thomas was paid $615K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 30% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoHICKS, THOMAS
SARALAND, AL 36571
SARALAND, AL 36571
33aNPI1740292713assigned 08/11/2006
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$615K
24GClaims21,439
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Alabama
Rank by total paid#37 of 346
Median peer was paid$59K
This provider vs. median10×
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 | 4,047 | $107K | |
| 2019 | 3,855 | $99K | |
| 2020 | 2,482 | $63K | |
| 2021 | 2,042 | $59K | |
| 2022 | 1,905 | $53K | |
| 2023 | 2,955 | $90K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,153 | $144K |
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 | 30% | 3,033 | 2,840 | $185K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 27% | 2,226 | 2,090 | $169K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 14% | 5,336 | 4,950 | $85K |
| V2499 | Variable sphericity lens, other type | 9.1% | 868 | 812 | $56K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 7.0% | 5,501 | 5,129 | $43K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 6.2% | 1,791 | 1,692 | $38K |
| 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 | 4.2% | 403 | 357 | $26K |
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | 1.7% | 1,761 | 1,564 | $11K |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | <1% | 508 | 482 | $1K |
| 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 | <1% | 12 | 12 | $963.90 |
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.