Physician
Russell, Christopher
Russell, Christopher was paid $504K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 25 billing codes. Its largest line is 70450, Computed tomography, head or brain; without contrast material — 38% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoRUSSELL, CHRISTOPHER
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO 63703
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO 63703
33aNPI1902812613assigned 08/01/2006
33bProvider typeDiagnostic Radiology Physician
28Total paid$504K
24GClaims17,549
24DCodes billed25
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Diagnostic Radiology Physician providers in Missouri
Rank by total paid#12 of 372
Median peer was paid$6K
This provider vs. median86×
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 | 3,942 | $77K | |
| 2019 | 3,445 | $109K | |
| 2020 | 2,371 | $69K | |
| 2021 | 2,238 | $71K | |
| 2022 | 1,982 | $60K | |
| 2023 | 1,756 | $62K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,815 | $55K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70450 | Computed tomography, head or brain; without contrast material | 38% | 3,309 | 3,073 | $193K |
| 74177 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; with contrast material | 22% | 2,504 | 2,360 | $110K |
| 74176 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; without contrast material | 18% | 2,256 | 2,143 | $90K |
| 71275 | Computed tomographic angiography, chest, with contrast material | 8.8% | 503 | 480 | $44K |
| 72125 | Computed tomography, cervical spine; without contrast material | 6.2% | 1,083 | 974 | $31K |
| 71045 | Radiologic examination, chest; single view | 3.9% | 4,736 | 4,293 | $19K |
| 71046 | Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views | 1.4% | 1,242 | 1,165 | $7K |
| 70486 | <1% | 67 | 58 | $2K | |
| 71250 | <1% | 68 | 68 | $1K | |
| 73630 | <1% | 158 | 141 | $1K | |
| 73610 | <1% | 114 | 90 | $1K | |
| 73030 | <1% | 55 | 50 | $528.69 |
13 more codes
| 74018 | <1% | 96 | $435.70 | |
| 76815 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, limited | <1% | 13 | $369.13 |
| 76705 | Ultrasound, abdominal, real time with image documentation; limited | <1% | 18 | $324.00 |
| 73110 | <1% | 24 | $310.18 | |
| 72100 | <1% | 18 | $182.00 | |
| 73562 | <1% | 12 | $121.94 | |
| G9557 | Final reports for ct, cta, mri or mra studies of the chest or neck without an incidentally found thyroid nodule < 1.0 cm noted or no nodule found | 0% | 22 | $0.00 |
| G9326 | Ct studies performed not reported to a radiation dose index registry that is capable of collecting at a minimum all necessary data elements, reason not given | 0% | 227 | $0.00 |
| G9638 | Final reports without documentation of one or more dose reduction techniques (e.g., automated exposure control, adjustment of the ma and/or kv according to patient size, use of iterative reconstruction technique) | 0% | 257 | $0.00 |
| G9329 | Dicom format image data available to non-affiliated external healthcare facilities or entities on a secure, media free, reciprocally searchable basis with patient authorization for at least a 12-month period after the study not documented in final report, reason not given | 0% | 227 | $0.00 |
| G9322 | Count of previous ct and cardiac nuclear medicine (myocardial perfusion or infarct avid imaging) studies not documented in the 12-month period prior to the current study, reason not given | 0% | 227 | $0.00 |
| G9551 | Final reports for imaging studies without an incidentally found lesion noted | 0% | 86 | $0.00 |
| G9319 | Imaging study not named according to standardized nomenclature, reason not given | 0% | 227 | $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.