Buffum, Tara
Buffum, Tara was paid $0.00 by Medicaid between Jun 2018 and Aug 2018, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 97535, Self-care/home management training, each 15 minutes — 0% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBUFFUM, TARA
CHULA VISTA, CA 91910
CHULA VISTA, CA 91910
33aNPI1700246964assigned 03/02/2016
33bProvider typeOccupational Therapist
28Total paid$0.00
24GClaims365
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJun 2018 – Aug 2018
Compared with peers
Next to other Occupational Therapist providers in California
Rank by total paid#90 of 103
Median peer was paid$41K
This provider vs. median0.0×
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 | 365 | $0.00 |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97535 | Self-care/home management training, each 15 minutes | 0% | 107 | 42 | $0.00 |
| 97140 | Manual therapy techniques, each 15 minutes (e.g., mobilization/manipulation, manual lymphatic drainage) | 0% | 53 | 27 | $0.00 |
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 0% | 107 | 43 | $0.00 |
| 97110 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion | 0% | 98 | 42 | $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.