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
658
Rank: 151st
out of 265 providers in this state & specialty
Services
Performed
907
Rank: 214th
out of 265 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Services
Per Patient
1.4 This Provider
Avg 4.4
Total Paid
by Medicare
$43.5K
Rank: 226th
out of 265 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Paid
Per Patient
$66 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
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This Provider's Services

This provider performed 20 different services in 2015
(12 were redacted as they were performed on less than 11 patients)

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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
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
353
times performed,
39% of his services

1st 17th

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

352
patients got this service, 53% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$56,480.00an average of $160.00 per time performed $22,270.77
an average of $63.09 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

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

Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes ×

Service Code: 99212
Performed in an office
232
times performed,
26% of his services

2nd 26th

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

195
patients got this service, 30% of his patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.3)
$15,124.08an average of $65.19 per time performed $5,985.60
an average of $25.80 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
121
times performed,
13% of his services

3rd 5th

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

115
patients got this service, 17% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.4)
$13,310.00an average of $110.00 per time performed $5,248.98
an average of $43.38 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Diagnostic imaging of optic nerve of eye

Service Code: 92133
Performed in an office
50
times performed,
6% of his services

4th 11th

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

50
patients got this service, 8% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$4,005.00an average of $80.10 per time performed $1,344.00
an average of $26.88 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
48
times performed,
5% of his services

5th 9th

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

47
patients got this service, 7% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$6,024.96an average of $125.52 per time performed $1,957.44
an average of $40.78 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
33
times performed,
4% of his services

6th 21st

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

33
patients got this service, 5% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$7,920.00an average of $240.00 per time performed $3,132.03
an average of $94.91 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 2... +

New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 20 minutes ×

Service Code: 99202
Performed in an office
28
times performed,
3% of his services

7th 80th

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

28
patients got this service, 4% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$3,080.00an average of $110.00 per time performed $1,228.36
an average of $43.87 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Diagnostic imaging of retina

Service Code: 92134
Performed in an office
15
times performed,
2% of his services

8th 3rd

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

15
patients got this service, 2% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.1)
$1,170.00an average of $78.00 per time performed $378.30
an average of $25.22 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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Carl Nelson Ringer
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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