Stern, Lawrence
Stern, Lawrence was paid $21K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jan 2023, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 92004, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient — 42% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSTERN, LAWRENCE
ANTHEM, AZ 85086
ANTHEM, AZ 85086
33aNPI1326045618assigned 07/01/2005
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$21K
24GClaims2,765
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jan 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Arizona
Rank by total paid#36 of 90
Median peer was paid$7K
This provider vs. median3.2×
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 | 496 | $2K | |
| 2019 | 409 | $4K | |
| 2020 | 617 | $6K | |
| 2021 | 634 | $5K | |
| 2022 | 548 | $4K | |
| 2023 | 61 | $403.53 |
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 | 42% | 610 | 610 | $9K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 25% | 642 | 641 | $5K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 13% | 558 | 557 | $3K |
| 92002 | 11% | 172 | 171 | $2K | |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 9.6% | 783 | 782 | $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.