Stern, Alvin
Stern, Alvin was paid $39K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2020, across 13 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 43% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSTERN, ALVIN
PENNS GROVE, NJ 08069
PENNS GROVE, NJ 08069
33aNPI1003819236assigned 05/23/2005
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$39K
24GClaims10,545
24DCodes billed13
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2020
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in New Jersey
Rank by total paid#157 of 599
Median peer was paid$2K
This provider vs. median21×
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 | 4,928 | $17K | |
| 2019 | 4,490 | $18K | |
| 2020 | 1,127 | $4K |
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 | 43% | 1,284 | 1,284 | $16K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 28% | 766 | 765 | $11K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 13% | 236 | 236 | $5K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 12% | 587 | 587 | $5K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 1.2% | 2,247 | 2,229 | $468.00 |
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 2,195 | 1,178 | $325.85 |
| 92341 | <1% | 12 | 12 | $300.00 | |
| V2203 | Spherocylinder, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 705 | 375 | $284.50 |
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | <1% | 1,912 | 1,006 | $140.00 |
| V2200 | Sphere, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d, per lens | <1% | 56 | 29 | $23.50 |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | <1% | 331 | 186 | $21.00 |
| S0621 | Routine ophthalmological examination including refraction; established patient | 0% | 149 | 149 | $0.00 |
1 more codes
| S0620 | Routine ophthalmological examination including refraction; new patient | 0% | 65 | $0.00 |
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.