Bittner, Benjamin
Bittner, Benjamin was paid $88K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jan 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 92004, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient — 67% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBITTNER, BENJAMIN
MYRTLE BEACH, SC 29588
MYRTLE BEACH, SC 29588
33aNPI1518185180assigned 04/20/2007
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$88K
24GClaims2,512
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jan 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in South Carolina
Rank by total paid#126 of 425
Median peer was paid$22K
This provider vs. median4.0×
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 | 279 | $10K | |
| 2019 | 845 | $28K | |
| 2020 | 683 | $24K | |
| 2021 | 194 | $9K | |
| 2022 | 191 | $9K | |
| 2023 | 292 | $8K | |
| 2024incomplete | 28 | $395.00 |
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 | 67% | 808 | 799 | $59K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 17% | 1,029 | 1,013 | $15K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 8.8% | 529 | 526 | $8K |
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 6.2% | 84 | 83 | $5K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | <1% | 37 | 37 | $370.00 |
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | <1% | 25 | 25 | $96.00 |
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.