Azar, Paul

Azar, Paul was paid $48K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Apr 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 92004, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient — 77% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoAZAR, PAUL
LAFAYETTE, LA 70506

33aNPI1245222850assigned 08/19/2005

33bProvider typeOphthalmology Physician

28Total paid$48K

24GClaims1,362

24DCodes billed6

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Apr 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Ophthalmology Physician providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#78 of 187

Median peer was paid$28K

This provider vs. median1.7×

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	149	$5K
2019	78	$4K
2020	651	$26K
2021	457	$11K
2024incomplete	27	$2K

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	77%	447	410	$37K
92014	Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient	9.4%	76	52	$4K
92015	Determination of refractive state	7.2%	606	571	$3K
V2020	Frames, purchases	6.0%	185	179	$3K
V2103	Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens	<1%	22	13	$227.96
2023F		0%	26	25	$0.00

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.