Empey, Gregory
Empey, Gregory was paid $722K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2022, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 30% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoEMPEY, GREGORY
SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060
SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060
33aNPI1598802282assigned 01/31/2007
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$722K
24GClaims34,295
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in California
Rank by total paid#101 of 1,899
Median peer was paid$23K
This provider vs. median32×
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 | 7,605 | $158K | |
| 2019 | 6,297 | $131K | |
| 2020 | 7,480 | $158K | |
| 2021 | 9,179 | $195K | |
| 2022 | 3,734 | $79K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 30% | 6,009 | 5,994 | $213K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 29% | 5,818 | 5,810 | $206K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 16% | 6,120 | 6,114 | $119K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 12% | 11,620 | 11,618 | $84K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 10% | 3,776 | 3,771 | $72K |
| 92341 | 3.8% | 952 | 951 | $27K |
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.