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Belue, James

Belue, James was paid $605K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2021, across 22 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 86% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBELUE, JAMES
RUSTON, LA 71270
33aNPI1871520023assigned 06/26/2006
28Total paid$605K
24GClaims19,243
24DCodes billed22
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2021
Compared with peers

Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#83 of 417
Median peer was paid$63K
This provider vs. median9.6×

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

$0$20K$40K$60K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
201811,467$386K
20195,777$204K
2020904$6K
20211,095$8K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
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 86% 11,166 9,521 $517K
99307 4.9% 4,318 3,917 $30K
99203 Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity 4.3% 603 556 $26K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 1.4% 274 244 $9K
90471 Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine <1% 331 310 $4K
83036 Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) <1% 805 702 $4K
90472 Immunization administration, each additional vaccine (list separately) <1% 171 161 $3K
87804 Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type <1% 164 151 $3K
87880 Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A <1% 173 160 $2K
99392 Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, early childhood (1-4 years) <1% 28 26 $2K
99393 Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, late childhood (5-11 years) <1% 17 16 $1K
96372 Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular <1% 390 339 $1K
10 more codes
99202 Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, straightforward <1% 18 $727.15
81002 <1% 442 $693.42
81025 <1% 121 $612.07
92551 <1% 68 $479.66
99173 <1% 69 $118.00
90734 0% 19 $0.00
90715 0% 16 $0.00
90633 0% 16 $0.00
90649 0% 22 $0.00
90686 0% 12 $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.