Physician
Backus, Charles
Backus, Charles was paid $680K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2024, across 19 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 53% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBACKUS, CHARLES
BULLS GAP, TN 37711
BULLS GAP, TN 37711
33aNPI1801856414assigned 03/27/2006
33bProvider typeAddiction Medicine (Preventive Medicine) Physician
28Total paid$680K
24GClaims19,486
24DCodes billed19
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Addiction Medicine (Preventive Medicine) Physician providers in Tennessee
Rank by total paid#1 of 9
Median peer was paid$9K
This provider vs. median77×
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 | 3,654 | $119K | |
| 2019 | 8,781 | $298K | |
| 2020 | 7,034 | $262K | |
| 2024incomplete | 17 | $540.75 |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 53% | 7,665 | 6,792 | $359K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 18% | 2,461 | 2,352 | $125K |
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 7.1% | 920 | 826 | $49K |
| H0016 | Alcohol and/or drug services; medical/somatic (medical intervention in ambulatory setting) | 7.0% | 353 | 191 | $48K |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | 4.3% | 3,435 | 1,761 | $29K |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 2.4% | 351 | 315 | $16K |
| 87880 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A | 2.2% | 2,027 | 1,907 | $15K |
| H2010 | Comprehensive medication services, per 15 minutes | 1.9% | 203 | 146 | $13K |
| U0002 | 2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc | 1.5% | 268 | 259 | $10K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | <1% | 228 | 183 | $7K |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | <1% | 572 | 537 | $6K |
| 81002 | <1% | 597 | 555 | $1K |
7 more codes
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) | <1% | 19 | $730.74 |
| 87807 | <1% | 100 | $719.38 | |
| J1100 | Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg | <1% | 189 | $127.77 |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | <1% | 59 | $123.21 |
| 86308 | <1% | 14 | $50.65 | |
| 81025 | <1% | 13 | $41.40 | |
| J0696 | Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg | <1% | 12 | $11.38 |
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.