Abelson, Rick
Abelson, Rick was paid $273K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 92004, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient — 48% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoABELSON, RICK
SAN CLEMENTE, CA 92673
SAN CLEMENTE, CA 92673
33aNPI1093019911assigned 01/06/2011
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$273K
24GClaims18,975
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in California
Rank by total paid#236 of 1,899
Median peer was paid$23K
This provider vs. median12×
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 | 2,257 | $33K | |
| 2019 | 2,518 | $32K | |
| 2020 | 2,933 | $60K | |
| 2021 | 2,953 | $60K | |
| 2022 | 2,684 | $55K | |
| 2023 | 2,592 | $33K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,038 | $210.88 |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 48% | 5,277 | 5,276 | $132K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 21% | 4,243 | 4,231 | $56K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 20% | 3,983 | 3,973 | $55K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 9.8% | 5,286 | 5,285 | $27K |
| 92341 | 1.2% | 186 | 186 | $3K |
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.