Esqueda, Nicole
Esqueda, Nicole was paid $44K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 92004, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient — 29% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoESQUEDA, NICOLE
HANFORD, CA 93230
HANFORD, CA 93230
33aNPI1750451159assigned 11/09/2006
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$44K
24GClaims6,021
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in California
Rank by total paid#754 of 1,899
Median peer was paid$23K
This provider vs. median1.9×
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 | 216 | $2K | |
| 2019 | 517 | $4K | |
| 2020 | 685 | $4K | |
| 2021 | 714 | $6K | |
| 2022 | 1,045 | $9K | |
| 2023 | 1,442 | $9K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,402 | $11K |
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 | 29% | 895 | 894 | $13K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 27% | 1,661 | 1,658 | $12K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 22% | 1,329 | 1,325 | $10K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 12% | 1,777 | 1,776 | $5K |
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 8.4% | 279 | 279 | $4K |
| 92341 | 1.9% | 80 | 80 | $832.84 |
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.