Treatment Tracker

The Doctors and Services in Medicare Part B

This database was last updated in December 2017. It should only be used as a historical snapshot. More recent data is available via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ lookup tool.

How This Provider Compares

This Provider

Avg in State & Specialty

Providers in this state and specialty were reimbursed, on average, $407 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 4 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.

Number of
Patients
922
Rank: 99th
out of 265 providers in this state & specialty
Services
Performed
1,910
Rank: 155th
out of 265 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Services
Per Patient
2.1 This Provider
Avg 4.4
Total Paid
by Medicare
$221K
Rank: 125th
out of 265 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Paid
Per Patient
$239 This Provider
Avg $407

How This Provider’s Patients Compare

Doctors often say their patients are sicker or more complex than those of their peers. The measure displayed below, used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, takes into account patients’ characteristics to estimate whether they are expected to have above-average Medicare spending. It considers patients’ age, sex, diagnoses from the past year and other factors. This provider’s score below takes into account all of his Part B patients.

This Provider's Patients
Expected to have lower spending
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This Provider's Services

This provider performed 27 different services in 2015
(13 were redacted as they were performed on less than 11 patients)

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Drug Services
Medical Services
CATEGORY
Description of Service
Times Performed (or Units) This Service's Rank Patients Unique Visits
Per Patient
Billed to Medicare Payments from Medicare
medical
MEDICINE

Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, ... +

Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, established patient, 1 or more visits ×

Service Code: 92014
Performed in an office
518
times performed,
27% of his services

1st 1st

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

493
patients got this service, 53% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$93,240.00an average of $180.00 per time performed $43,786.54
an average of $84.53 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Measurement of corneal curvature and depth of eye

Service Code: 92136
Performed in an office
258
times performed,
14% of his services

2nd 8th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

132
patients got this service, 14% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.4)
$30,960.00an average of $120.00 per time performed $8,901.00
an average of $34.50 per time performed
medical
EYE

Removal of cataract with insertion of lens

Service Code: 66984
Performed in a facility
200
times performed,
10% of his services

3rd 6th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

126
patients got this service, 14% of his patients
1.6
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.6)
$400,000.00an average of $2,000.00 per time performed $91,076.00
an average of $455.38 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, ... +

Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, new patient, 1 or more visits ×

Service Code: 92004
Performed in an office
183
times performed,
10% of his services

4th 16th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

183
patients got this service, 20% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$43,920.00an average of $240.00 per time performed $18,378.69
an average of $100.43 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, ... +

Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, established patient ×

Service Code: 92012
Performed in an office
168
times performed,
9% of his services

5th 2nd

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

140
patients got this service, 15% of his patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.6)
$20,160.00an average of $120.00 per time performed $9,364.32
an average of $55.74 per time performed
medical
EYE

Removal of recurring cataract in lens capsule using laser +

Removal of recurring cataract in lens capsule using laser ×

Service Code: 66821
Performed in a facility
122
times performed,
6% of his services

6th 24th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

85
patients got this service, 9% of his patients
1.4
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$52,460.00an average of $430.00 per time performed $26,381.28
an average of $216.24 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typ... +

Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes ×

Service Code: 99213
Performed in an office
88
times performed,
5% of his services

7th 5th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

84
patients got this service, 9% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.4)
$8,800.00an average of $100.00 per time performed $4,177.36
an average of $47.47 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Diagnostic imaging of optic nerve of eye

Service Code: 92133
Performed in an office
80
times performed,
4% of his services

8th 11th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

80
patients got this service, 9% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$6,400.00an average of $80.00 per time performed $2,616.00
an average of $32.70 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Microfluid analysis of tears

Service Code: 83861
Performed in an office
68
times performed,
4% of his services

9th 15th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

33
patients got this service, 4% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$3,400.00an average of $50.00 per time performed $1,498.04
an average of $22.03 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Measurement of field of vision during daylight conditions +

Measurement of field of vision during daylight conditions ×

Service Code: 92083
Performed in an office
61
times performed,
3% of his services

10th 9th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

61
patients got this service, 7% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$7,320.00an average of $120.00 per time performed $2,859.68
an average of $46.88 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typ... +

Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes ×

Service Code: 99214
Performed in an office
46
times performed,
2% of his services

11th 17th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

44
patients got this service, 5% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$7,130.00an average of $155.00 per time performed $3,319.82
an average of $72.17 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 4... +

New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes ×

Service Code: 99204
Performed in an office
26
times performed,
1% of his services

12th 21st

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

26
patients got this service, 3% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$6,630.00an average of $255.00 per time performed $2,319.72
an average of $89.22 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Diagnostic imaging of retina

Service Code: 92134
Performed in an office
22
times performed,
1% of his services

13th 3rd

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

22
patients got this service, 2% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.1)
$1,760.00an average of $80.00 per time performed $763.40
an average of $34.70 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Computerized mapping of corneal curvature

Service Code: 92025
Performed in an office
17
times performed,
0.89% of his services

14th 37th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

17
patients got this service, 2% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$1,360.00an average of $80.00 per time performed $414.63
an average of $24.39 per time performed

Office Visits

Medicare reimburses office visits using a five-point scale, with five being the most intensive and costly. The chart below shows what percentage of this provider’s office visits were reimbursed at each level. A higher than average proportion of costly visits is not necessarily an indication of a problem, but it may be worth asking about.

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This provider did not bill Medicare for any 5’s.

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Average for Ophthalmology Providers in Missouri

Notes: Medicare redacted this data for any services provided to fewer than 11 patients. The contact information listed above is the most current we have for this provider. The services listed on this page may have been delivered at a previous address or as part of a different practice.

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Sources: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Plan and Provider Enumeration System, American Medical Association

Services that begin with a letter come from CMS. All other codes and descriptions of the medical procedures are from the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set, copyright 2015 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Where practical, AMA’s consumer friendly translation of the CPT descriptor was used. ProPublica has received permission from the AMA to use these codes on this site.

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