Watson, Melissa

Watson, Melissa was paid $138K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2023, across 23 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 57% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoWATSON, MELISSA
SLIDELL, LA 70458

33aNPI1891185948assigned 01/28/2015

33bProvider typePsychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

28Total paid$138K

24GClaims4,775

24DCodes billed23

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#44 of 146

Median peer was paid$34K

This provider vs. median4.1×

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.

OIG exclusionListed on the federal exclusion list (12/19/2024).

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	2,720	$71K
2019	905	$33K
2020	585	$14K
2021	15	$151.90
2023	550	$20K

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	57%	2,079	1,746	$79K
99215	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis	16%	504	405	$23K
90792	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services	7.2%	212	191	$10K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	4.3%	194	172	$6K
99404		3.6%	201	182	$5K
99205	Prolong outpt/office vis	3.3%	102	91	$5K
99403		2.1%	149	127	$3K
99401		2.0%	189	169	$3K
99204	Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity	1.8%	44	41	$3K
80305		<1%	217	177	$1K
99402		<1%	59	54	$1K
99406		<1%	69	65	$453.78

11 more codes

36415	Collection of venous blood by venipuncture	<1%	250	$363.16
97530	Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes	<1%	14	$144.18
99407		<1%	36	$22.17
96127		<1%	19	$18.97
96160		<1%	28	$16.00
3725F		0%	86	$0.00
99091		0%	22	$0.00
99071		0%	17	$0.00
3008F		0%	222	$0.00
97535	Self-care/home management training, each 15 minutes	0%	40	$0.00
93790		0%	22	$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.