Physician
Patalano, Steven
Patalano, Steven was paid $292K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 46% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPATALANO, STEVEN
SOMERVILLE, MA 02143
SOMERVILLE, MA 02143
33aNPI1669546883assigned 11/20/2006
33bProvider typeOphthalmology Physician
28Total paid$292K
24GClaims7,123
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ophthalmology Physician providers in Massachusetts
Rank by total paid#28 of 203
Median peer was paid$18K
This provider vs. median16×
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 | 1,176 | $46K | |
| 2019 | 1,293 | $48K | |
| 2020 | 762 | $32K | |
| 2021 | 1,109 | $46K | |
| 2022 | 1,056 | $44K | |
| 2023 | 976 | $43K | |
| 2024incomplete | 751 | $33K |
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 | 46% | 2,348 | 2,341 | $135K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 33% | 1,338 | 1,337 | $97K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 14% | 2,940 | 2,940 | $40K |
| 92012 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, intermediate, established patient | 5.8% | 432 | 398 | $17K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | <1% | 28 | 27 | $2K |
| 92002 | <1% | 12 | 12 | $414.96 | |
| 92083 | <1% | 12 | 12 | $255.96 | |
| 92133 | <1% | 13 | 13 | $223.99 |
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.