Blum, Kenneth
Blum, Kenneth was paid $1.85M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 15 billing codes. Its largest line is V2020, Frames, purchases — 17% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBLUM, KENNETH
STAMFORD, CT 06901
STAMFORD, CT 06901
33aNPI1386741809assigned 09/19/2006
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$1.85M
24GClaims56,670
24DCodes billed15
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Connecticut
Rank by total paid#23 of 340
Median peer was paid$125K
This provider vs. median15×
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 | 18,630 | $582K | |
| 2019 | 14,376 | $479K | |
| 2020 | 6,497 | $206K | |
| 2021 | 5,476 | $178K | |
| 2022 | 4,084 | $140K | |
| 2023 | 3,852 | $136K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,755 | $134K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 17% | 10,613 | 10,383 | $310K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 16% | 8,000 | 7,876 | $301K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 14% | 3,731 | 3,687 | $252K |
| S0580 | Polycarbonate lens (list this code in addition to the basic code for the lens) | 12% | 7,792 | 7,609 | $223K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 12% | 10,277 | 10,039 | $219K |
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 12% | 4,229 | 4,163 | $216K |
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 9.1% | 5,506 | 5,419 | $168K |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | 4.6% | 3,142 | 3,070 | $85K |
| V2104 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, 2.12 to 4.00d cylinder, per lens | 1.2% | 793 | 778 | $22K |
| V2799 | Vision item or service, miscellaneous | 1.1% | 1,415 | 1,373 | $21K |
| 92341 | <1% | 587 | 572 | $14K | |
| V2203 | Spherocylinder, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 239 | 229 | $11K |
3 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.