Physician
Barker, James
Barker, James was paid $1.04M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 51% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBARKER, JAMES
HICKORY, NC 28601
HICKORY, NC 28601
33aNPI1922189927assigned 10/17/2006
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$1.04M
24GClaims26,246
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#80 of 616
Median peer was paid$74K
This provider vs. median14×
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 | 6,773 | $255K | |
| 2019 | 3,425 | $126K | |
| 2020 | 3,475 | $111K | |
| 2021 | 4,299 | $157K | |
| 2022 | 2,350 | $92K | |
| 2023 | 1,780 | $54K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,144 | $242K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 51% | 17,421 | 1,799 | $533K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 15% | 1,649 | 1,264 | $160K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 15% | 3,113 | 1,271 | $154K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 8.6% | 1,851 | 1,071 | $89K |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | 8.3% | 1,635 | 1,248 | $86K |
| 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 | 1.6% | 577 | 353 | $17K |
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.