Lukkarinen, Tara
Lukkarinen, Tara was paid $22K by Medicaid between Feb 2018 and Nov 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 71% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLUKKARINEN, TARA
MUSCATINE, IA 52761
MUSCATINE, IA 52761
33aNPI1841255270assigned 04/19/2006
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$22K
24GClaims526
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Iowa
Rank by total paid#288 of 521
Median peer was paid$28K
This provider vs. median0.8×
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 | 164 | $6K | |
| 2019 | 159 | $6K | |
| 2020 | 44 | $2K | |
| 2021 | 12 | $745.20 | |
| 2024incomplete | 147 | $7K |
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 | 71% | 243 | 235 | $16K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 18% | 163 | 157 | $4K |
| 92012 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, intermediate, established patient | 5.2% | 26 | 25 | $1K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 5.1% | 12 | 12 | $1K |
| V2756 | Eye glass case | <1% | 82 | 79 | $84.24 |
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.