Physician
Buff, Daniel
Buff, Daniel was paid $519K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 40% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBUFF, DANIEL
FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11691
FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11691
33aNPI1033202544assigned 10/02/2006
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$519K
24GClaims27,023
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in New York
Rank by total paid#461 of 6,049
Median peer was paid$11K
This provider vs. median46×
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 | 1,436 | $42K | |
| 2019 | 2,691 | $74K | |
| 2020 | 4,655 | $113K | |
| 2021 | 4,852 | $93K | |
| 2022 | 5,143 | $78K | |
| 2023 | 5,508 | $73K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,738 | $47K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 40% | 6,555 | 2,869 | $210K |
| 99309 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity | 31% | 12,933 | 11,932 | $162K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 17% | 2,496 | 2,334 | $86K |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | 5.2% | 2,133 | 1,996 | $27K |
| 99308 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward | 4.1% | 2,301 | 2,051 | $21K |
| 99306 | Prolong nursin fac eval 15m | 1.4% | 209 | 207 | $7K |
| 99305 | <1% | 259 | 251 | $4K | |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | <1% | 50 | 15 | $1K |
| 99316 | <1% | 43 | 43 | $667.95 | |
| 99307 | <1% | 44 | 42 | $534.18 |
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.