Physician
Berger, Richard
Berger, Richard was paid $534K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2022, across 24 billing codes. Its largest line is 70553, Magnetic resonance imaging, brain; without contrast material, followed by contrast material and further sequences — 32% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBERGER, RICHARD
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO 63703
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO 63703
33aNPI1780683003assigned 07/19/2005
33bProvider typeDiagnostic Radiology Physician
28Total paid$534K
24GClaims9,757
24DCodes billed24
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Diagnostic Radiology Physician providers in Missouri
Rank by total paid#8 of 372
Median peer was paid$6K
This provider vs. median92×
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 | 2,821 | $119K | |
| 2019 | 2,108 | $109K | |
| 2020 | 1,443 | $81K | |
| 2021 | 1,591 | $105K | |
| 2022 | 1,794 | $119K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70553 | Magnetic resonance imaging, brain; without contrast material, followed by contrast material and further sequences | 32% | 2,593 | 2,451 | $169K |
| 72148 | Magnetic resonance imaging, lumbar spine; without contrast material | 27% | 1,982 | 1,845 | $146K |
| 70551 | Magnetic resonance imaging, brain; without contrast material | 14% | 1,174 | 1,107 | $76K |
| 72141 | 14% | 1,036 | 980 | $75K | |
| 70450 | Computed tomography, head or brain; without contrast material | 3.5% | 333 | 302 | $19K |
| 72156 | 1.9% | 144 | 136 | $10K | |
| 70496 | 1.7% | 120 | 116 | $9K | |
| 70498 | 1.1% | 76 | 72 | $6K | |
| 72158 | <1% | 64 | 56 | $4K | |
| 71046 | Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views | <1% | 715 | 657 | $3K |
| 71045 | Radiologic examination, chest; single view | <1% | 927 | 777 | $3K |
| 74177 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; with contrast material | <1% | 93 | 81 | $3K |
12 more codes
| 70548 | <1% | 31 | $3K | |
| 72146 | <1% | 39 | $3K | |
| 74176 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; without contrast material | <1% | 67 | $2K |
| 70544 | <1% | 77 | $2K | |
| 73630 | <1% | 20 | $150.42 | |
| 73610 | <1% | 16 | $149.08 | |
| G9319 | Imaging study not named according to standardized nomenclature, reason not given | 0% | 41 | $0.00 |
| G9638 | Final reports without documentation of one or more dose reduction techniques (e.g., automated exposure control, adjustment of the ma and/or kv according to patient size, use of iterative reconstruction technique) | 0% | 60 | $0.00 |
| G9329 | Dicom format image data available to non-affiliated external healthcare facilities or entities on a secure, media free, reciprocally searchable basis with patient authorization for at least a 12-month period after the study not documented in final report, reason not given | 0% | 41 | $0.00 |
| G9322 | Count of previous ct and cardiac nuclear medicine (myocardial perfusion or infarct avid imaging) studies not documented in the 12-month period prior to the current study, reason not given | 0% | 41 | $0.00 |
| G9326 | Ct studies performed not reported to a radiation dose index registry that is capable of collecting at a minimum all necessary data elements, reason not given | 0% | 41 | $0.00 |
| G9557 | Final reports for ct, cta, mri or mra studies of the chest or neck without an incidentally found thyroid nodule < 1.0 cm noted or no nodule found | 0% | 26 | $0.00 |
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.