Physician
Buffenstein, Alan
Buffenstein, Alan was paid $116K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 48% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBUFFENSTEIN, ALAN
HONOLULU, HI 96814
HONOLULU, HI 96814
33aNPI1639278104assigned 09/21/2006
33bProvider typePsychiatry Physician
28Total paid$116K
24GClaims7,398
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Psychiatry Physician providers in Hawaii
Rank by total paid#20 of 40
Median peer was paid$86K
This provider vs. median1.3×
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 | 320 | $7K | |
| 2019 | 407 | $2K | |
| 2020 | 1,208 | $23K | |
| 2021 | 1,854 | $25K | |
| 2022 | 1,725 | $23K | |
| 2023 | 1,361 | $18K | |
| 2024incomplete | 523 | $18K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 48% | 4,235 | 2,998 | $56K |
| 90833 | Psychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient when performed with an E&M service (add-on) | 36% | 1,727 | 1,299 | $41K |
| Q3014 | Telehealth originating site facility fee | 14% | 1,336 | 1,034 | $16K |
| 99214 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity | 1.3% | 50 | 40 | $1K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 21 | 20 | $939.13 |
| 90792 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | 0% | 29 | 17 | $0.00 |
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.