Gehrig, Melvin
Gehrig, Melvin was paid $2.05M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 17 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 45% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoGEHRIG, MELVIN
LAKE CHARLES, LA 70601
LAKE CHARLES, LA 70601
33aNPI1932181427assigned 11/18/2005
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$2.05M
24GClaims67,162
24DCodes billed17
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#11 of 442
Median peer was paid$199K
This provider vs. median10×
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 | 10,601 | $347K | |
| 2019 | 10,197 | $331K | |
| 2020 | 7,973 | $250K | |
| 2021 | 9,725 | $292K | |
| 2022 | 9,707 | $301K | |
| 2023 | 10,558 | $295K | |
| 2024incomplete | 8,401 | $232K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 45% | 13,499 | 12,435 | $925K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 22% | 5,451 | 5,065 | $459K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 10% | 14,368 | 12,978 | $206K |
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 5.8% | 11,037 | 6,920 | $118K |
| 99211 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity | 5.4% | 8,802 | 8,238 | $111K |
| V2203 | Spherocylinder, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 3.6% | 2,139 | 1,323 | $73K |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | 2.3% | 4,197 | 2,841 | $46K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 1.9% | 3,515 | 3,186 | $39K |
| 92012 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, intermediate, established patient | 1.8% | 922 | 710 | $37K |
| V2107 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plus or minus 4.25 to plus or minus 7.00 sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 1,460 | 964 | $17K |
| V2104 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, 2.12 to 4.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 716 | 486 | $7K |
| V2200 | Sphere, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d, per lens | <1% | 107 | 81 | $3K |
5 more codes
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.