Supplier
Great Northern Opticians
Great Northern Opticians was paid $24K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is V2020, Frames, purchases — 54% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoGREAT NORTHERN OPTICIANS
BRAINERD, MN 56401
BRAINERD, MN 56401
33aNPI1093933483assigned 04/23/2007
33bProvider typeDurable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies
28Total paid$24K
24GClaims1,391
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies providers in Minnesota
Rank by total paid#159 of 319
Median peer was paid$23K
This provider vs. median1.0×
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 | 395 | $703.68 | |
| 2019 | 291 | $6K | |
| 2020 | 249 | $6K | |
| 2021 | 193 | $4K | |
| 2022 | 124 | $3K | |
| 2023 | 100 | $3K | |
| 2024incomplete | 39 | $1K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 54% | 530 | 471 | $13K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 20% | 277 | 271 | $5K |
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 16% | 483 | 232 | $4K |
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | 10% | 101 | 99 | $2K |
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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialVIRNIG, CHERYL (OPTICIAN)