Knauss, Daniel
Knauss, Daniel was paid $486K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is V2784, Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens — 40% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoKNAUSS, DANIEL
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93111
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93111
33aNPI1548473762assigned 05/07/2007
33bProvider typeOptician
28Total paid$486K
24GClaims15,322
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optician providers in California
Rank by total paid#3 of 24
Median peer was paid$17K
This provider vs. median28×
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 | 3,114 | $128K | |
| 2019 | 3,380 | $139K | |
| 2020 | 2,784 | $118K | |
| 2021 | 355 | $6K | |
| 2022 | 1,406 | $23K | |
| 2023 | 1,909 | $32K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,374 | $40K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | 40% | 2,610 | 2,588 | $192K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 25% | 5,644 | 5,605 | $120K |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | 18% | 2,408 | 2,389 | $88K |
| V2102 | Sphere, single vision, plus or minus 7.12 to plus or minus 20.00d, per lens | 5.7% | 901 | 898 | $28K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 5.1% | 2,312 | 2,307 | $25K |
| V2104 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, 2.12 to 4.00d cylinder, per lens | 2.9% | 630 | 627 | $14K |
| 92341 | 2.2% | 672 | 669 | $11K | |
| V2200 | Sphere, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d, per lens | 1.7% | 145 | 145 | $9K |
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.