Belardo, Carmelo
Belardo, Carmelo was paid $547K by Medicaid between Jul 2018 and Feb 2023, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is V2784, Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens — 33% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBELARDO, CARMELO
LAKEWOOD, NJ 08701
LAKEWOOD, NJ 08701
33aNPI1063910511assigned 01/30/2018
33bProvider typeOptician
28Total paid$547K
24GClaims37,959
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJul 2018 – Feb 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Optician providers in New Jersey
Rank by total paid#2 of 89
Median peer was paid$2K
This provider vs. median345×
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 | 2,946 | $68K | |
| 2019 | 8,031 | $155K | |
| 2020 | 7,471 | $85K | |
| 2021 | 11,115 | $94K | |
| 2022 | 7,394 | $122K | |
| 2023 | 1,002 | $21K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | 33% | 10,595 | 10,054 | $180K |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | 28% | 11,690 | 11,038 | $151K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 28% | 13,084 | 12,395 | $151K |
| V2783 | Lens, index greater than or equal to 1.66 plastic or greater than or equal to 1.80 glass, excludes polycarbonate, per lens | 6.6% | 649 | 649 | $36K |
| V2200 | Sphere, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d, per lens | 3.2% | 961 | 898 | $17K |
| V2520 | Contact lens, hydrophilic, spherical, per lens | 2.0% | 468 | 457 | $11K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | <1% | 55 | 55 | $860.00 |
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 457 | 457 | $63.00 |
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.