Physician
Knuckles, Melissa
Knuckles, Melissa was paid $559K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 22 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 29% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoKNUCKLES, MELISSA
CORBIN, KY 40701
CORBIN, KY 40701
33aNPI1821074360assigned 12/16/2005
33bProvider typeDermatology Physician
28Total paid$559K
24GClaims30,543
24DCodes billed22
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Dermatology Physician providers in Kentucky
Rank by total paid#4 of 21
Median peer was paid$29K
This provider vs. median19×
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 | 4,382 | $128K | |
| 2019 | 4,419 | $108K | |
| 2020 | 4,546 | $74K | |
| 2021 | 6,782 | $84K | |
| 2022 | 4,592 | $62K | |
| 2023 | 3,435 | $60K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,387 | $43K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 29% | 9,683 | 5,342 | $165K |
| 99243 | 14% | 1,395 | 918 | $80K | |
| 17004 | 14% | 2,336 | 1,206 | $78K | |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | 11% | 6,792 | 3,301 | $63K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 11% | 3,672 | 1,589 | $62K |
| 99242 | 6.7% | 854 | 575 | $37K | |
| 11102 | 4.5% | 1,335 | 576 | $25K | |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | 2.1% | 1,848 | 694 | $11K |
| 11100 | 1.8% | 541 | 397 | $10K | |
| 11106 | 1.7% | 310 | 137 | $9K | |
| 11101 | <1% | 337 | 216 | $5K | |
| 99202 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, straightforward | <1% | 215 | 98 | $4K |
10 more codes
| 17000 | <1% | 186 | $2K | |
| 11107 | <1% | 79 | $2K | |
| 11103 | <1% | 165 | $1K | |
| 11901 | <1% | 183 | $1K | |
| 96401 | <1% | 24 | $811.69 | |
| J3301 | Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg | <1% | 389 | $474.53 |
| 17110 | <1% | 21 | $330.68 | |
| 17003 | <1% | 23 | $195.67 | |
| J3590 | Unclassified biologics | <1% | 119 | $0.14 |
| J2357 | Injection, omalizumab, 5 mg | <1% | 36 | $0.04 |
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.