Friedman, Arthur
Friedman, Arthur was paid $1.48M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 19 billing codes. Its largest line is V2020, Frames, purchases — 24% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFRIEDMAN, ARTHUR
SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404
SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404
33aNPI1033195888assigned 12/22/2005
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$1.48M
24GClaims64,472
24DCodes billed19
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in California
Rank by total paid#47 of 1,899
Median peer was paid$23K
This provider vs. median65×
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 | 8,075 | $165K | |
| 2019 | 7,377 | $149K | |
| 2020 | 6,711 | $144K | |
| 2021 | 9,606 | $252K | |
| 2022 | 9,663 | $247K | |
| 2023 | 11,629 | $260K | |
| 2024incomplete | 11,411 | $260K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 24% | 15,710 | 15,008 | $353K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 24% | 8,772 | 8,720 | $350K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 17% | 11,526 | 11,449 | $251K |
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 14% | 6,350 | 6,306 | $213K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 8.7% | 15,958 | 15,847 | $128K |
| 92250 | 4.1% | 1,771 | 1,753 | $61K | |
| 92341 | 3.6% | 1,829 | 1,820 | $54K | |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 1.7% | 1,208 | 1,143 | $26K |
| V2750 | Anti-reflective coating, per lens | 1.2% | 232 | 206 | $17K |
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | <1% | 498 | 224 | $12K |
| 92225 | <1% | 106 | 53 | $5K | |
| V2203 | Spherocylinder, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 64 | 31 | $3K |
7 more codes
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 241 | $2K |
| V2781 | Progressive lens, per lens | <1% | 38 | $2K |
| 92226 | <1% | 23 | $907.58 | |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine) | <1% | 16 | $906.08 |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | <1% | 41 | $336.61 |
| 92133 | <1% | 12 | $275.57 | |
| 99072 | 0% | 77 | $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.