WK Ark-La-Tex Neonatology

WK Ark-La-Tex Neonatology was paid $1.32M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 99479, Subsequent intensive care, per day, very low birth weight infant — 71% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoWK ARK-LA-TEX NEONATOLOGY
SHREVEPORT, LA 71118

33aNPI1780848580assigned 07/11/2008

33bProvider typeNeonatal-Perinatal Medicine Physician

28Total paid$1.32M

24GClaims13,294

24DCodes billed6

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Physician providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#3 of 13

Median peer was paid$252K

This provider vs. median5.3×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official GAVIN, GREG controls 18+ related entities in our dataset. Read more

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	1,311	$172K
2019	1,662	$174K
2020	2,380	$253K
2021	2,278	$219K
2022	1,603	$150K
2023	3,105	$286K
2024incomplete	955	$69K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99479	Subsequent intensive care, per day, very low birth weight infant	71%	10,607	1,757	$941K
99469	Subsequent inpatient neonatal critical care, per day, 28 days or younger	15%	711	185	$196K
99480	Subsequent intensive care, per day, low birth weight infant	10%	1,483	348	$134K
99239	Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes	1.9%	354	322	$25K
99478		1.3%	121	27	$18K
99468		<1%	18	18	$10K

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.

From NPPES

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialGAVIN, GREG (NETWORK/ADMINISTRATOR)

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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.