Kluge, Meritza
Kluge, Meritza was paid $12K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2021, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 48% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoKLUGE, MERITZA
LANCASTER, MA 01523
LANCASTER, MA 01523
33aNPI1134450752assigned 01/21/2010
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$12K
24GClaims482
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2021
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Massachusetts
Rank by total paid#331 of 629
Median peer was paid$15K
This provider vs. median0.8×
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 | 304 | $9K | |
| 2019 | 149 | $3K | |
| 2020 | 16 | $230.24 | |
| 2021 | 13 | $187.07 |
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 | 48% | 93 | 93 | $6K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 44% | 376 | 375 | $5K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 8.4% | 13 | 13 | $980.75 |
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.