Polakoff, Stephen
Polakoff, Stephen was paid $444K by Medicaid between Jan 2020 and Aug 2024, across 14 billing codes. Its largest line is 92004, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient — 28% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPOLAKOFF, STEPHEN
LINTHICUM, MD 21090
LINTHICUM, MD 21090
33aNPI1265420921assigned 10/07/2005
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$444K
24GClaims21,734
24DCodes billed14
24AFirst – last monthJan 2020 – Aug 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Maryland
Rank by total paid#25 of 345
Median peer was paid$27K
This provider vs. median16×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7,004 | $141K | |
| 2021 | 6,073 | $122K | |
| 2022 | 3,066 | $62K | |
| 2023 | 3,343 | $66K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,248 | $53K |
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 | 28% | 4,661 | 4,314 | $125K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 24% | 6,231 | 5,784 | $107K |
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 13% | 3,108 | 2,939 | $60K |
| S0620 | Routine ophthalmological examination including refraction; new patient | 8.7% | 771 | 771 | $39K |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | 5.7% | 1,333 | 1,158 | $25K |
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 5.1% | 650 | 577 | $23K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 4.9% | 936 | 928 | $22K |
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | 4.8% | 3,188 | 2,937 | $21K |
| V2203 | Spherocylinder, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 3.7% | 608 | 566 | $17K |
| 92341 | <1% | 86 | 86 | $3K | |
| V2200 | Sphere, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d, per lens | <1% | 52 | 51 | $2K |
| V2303 | Spherocylinder, trifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12-2.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 39 | 39 | $1K |
2 more codes
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.