Physician
Covert, Christopher
Covert, Christopher was paid $826K by Medicaid between Feb 2019 and Nov 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is 90832, psychotherapy session, about 30 minutes — 46% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCOVERT, CHRISTOPHER
DES MOINES, IA 50309
DES MOINES, IA 50309
33aNPI1891772968assigned 12/29/2005
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$826K
24GClaims25,460
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2019 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Iowa
Rank by total paid#9 of 65
Median peer was paid$11K
This provider vs. median74×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1,176 | $30K | |
| 2020 | 2,012 | $61K | |
| 2021 | 5,053 | $164K | |
| 2022 | 5,787 | $179K | |
| 2023 | 6,107 | $233K | |
| 2024incomplete | 5,325 | $160K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient | 46% | 9,664 | 4,817 | $379K |
| 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 | 23% | 3,910 | 3,471 | $194K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 13% | 3,209 | 2,863 | $109K |
| 80305 | 11% | 7,210 | 6,051 | $93K | |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 1.9% | 173 | 168 | $16K |
| 90833 | Psychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient when performed with an E&M service (add-on) | 1.9% | 582 | 561 | $15K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 52 | 52 | $7K |
| 80307 | Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay | <1% | 196 | 132 | $5K |
| S0109 | Methadone, oral, 5 mg | <1% | 355 | 57 | $4K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 39 | 38 | $4K |
| 99408 | <1% | 70 | 44 | $945.84 |
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.