Merino, Jesus
Merino, Jesus was paid $5K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jun 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 92004, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient — 62% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMERINO, JESUS
PARAMOUNT, CA 90723
PARAMOUNT, CA 90723
33aNPI1609130624assigned 06/25/2012
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$5K
24GClaims1,488
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jun 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in California
Rank by total paid#1,320 of 1,899
Median peer was paid$23K
This provider vs. median0.2×
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 | 468 | $5K | |
| 2019 | 56 | $0.00 | |
| 2020 | 14 | $0.00 | |
| 2021 | 37 | $0.00 | |
| 2022 | 14 | $0.00 | |
| 2024incomplete | 899 | $0.00 |
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 | 62% | 235 | 235 | $3K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 20% | 559 | 559 | $966.14 |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 8.1% | 259 | 258 | $387.80 |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 8.0% | 266 | 266 | $383.60 |
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 1.5% | 169 | 169 | $71.00 |
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.