Richard Nielsen

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Colleagues at Last Frontier Healthcare District

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 30 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Virginia Baker, FNP-C Family Medicine Physician · Alturas, CA
• Mrs. Kathleen B. Chesney, PAC Physician Assistant · Redding, CA
• Dr. Matthew Sean Edmonds, MD Family Medicine Physician · Klamath Falls, OR
• Dr. Joseph Esherick, MD Family Medicine Physician · Ventura, CA
• Dr. James John Helmer Jr., MD Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician · Ventura, CA
• Matthew Kappen, MD Family Medicine Physician · Ventura, CA
• Jacee D Knighton, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Alturas, CA
• Dr. Jay Lai, MD Family Medicine Physician · Alturas, CA
• Clinton McBride, MD Emergency Medicine Physician · Fort Collins, CO
• Marina Morie, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Ventura, CA
• Wendy Marie Richardson, PA-C Physician Assistant · Poway, CA
• Zachary B Self, MD Family Medicine Physician · Memphis, TN