Cook, Benjamin
Cook, Benjamin was paid $396K by Medicaid between Jan 2019 and Dec 2024, across 14 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 38% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCOOK, BENJAMIN
TAMPA, FL 33617
TAMPA, FL 33617
33aNPI1053752907assigned 07/08/2013
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$396K
24GClaims21,954
24DCodes billed14
24AFirst – last monthJan 2019 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Florida
Rank by total paid#39 of 941
Median peer was paid$21K
This provider vs. median18×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1,128 | $11K | |
| 2020 | 1,040 | $20K | |
| 2021 | 2,290 | $32K | |
| 2022 | 5,692 | $104K | |
| 2023 | 6,095 | $118K | |
| 2024incomplete | 5,709 | $111K |
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 | 38% | 2,581 | 2,486 | $151K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 25% | 4,038 | 3,494 | $100K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 24% | 1,368 | 1,306 | $96K |
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 3.6% | 3,321 | 1,954 | $14K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 3.6% | 4,300 | 4,069 | $14K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 2.8% | 1,468 | 1,378 | $11K |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | 1.7% | 1,685 | 888 | $7K |
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | <1% | 1,262 | 1,197 | $3K |
| V2203 | Spherocylinder, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 168 | 97 | $485.65 |
| V2104 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, 2.12 to 4.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 40 | 25 | $249.88 |
| 92310 | <1% | 17 | 12 | $35.00 | |
| V2025 | Deluxe frame | 0% | 128 | 124 | $0.00 |
2 more codes
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.