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Shams, Nicole

Shams, Nicole was paid $64K by Medicaid between Oct 2019 and Nov 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 92004, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient — 64% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSHAMS, NICOLE
REDMOND, WA 98052
33aNPI1942582440assigned 09/12/2011
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$64K
24GClaims2,478
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthOct 2019 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Optometrist providers in Washington

Rank by total paid#186 of 565
Median peer was paid$23K
This provider vs. median2.8×

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

$0$1.0K$2.0K$3.0K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
201968$960.02
2020516$15K
2021658$20K
2022352$13K
2023628$13K
2024incomplete256$3K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
92004 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient 64% 754 752 $41K
92340 Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal 15% 543 517 $9K
92015 Determination of refractive state 12% 997 995 $8K
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 4.4% 25 25 $3K
92370 3.0% 130 119 $2K
92014 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient 1.8% 29 29 $1K

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.