Forszt, Edward
Forszt, Edward was paid $79K by Medicaid between Feb 2018 and Nov 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is 92004, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient — 32% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFORSZT, EDWARD
WEST NEW YORK, NJ 07093
WEST NEW YORK, NJ 07093
33aNPI1780883652assigned 07/12/2007
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$79K
24GClaims12,902
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in New Jersey
Rank by total paid#115 of 599
Median peer was paid$2K
This provider vs. median44×
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 | 257 | $2K | |
| 2019 | 578 | $6K | |
| 2020 | 1,579 | $10K | |
| 2021 | 3,316 | $27K | |
| 2022 | 2,631 | $17K | |
| 2023 | 2,145 | $9K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,396 | $8K |
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 | 32% | 1,949 | 1,945 | $25K |
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 20% | 1,179 | 1,169 | $16K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 17% | 2,947 | 2,922 | $14K |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | 9.9% | 2,950 | 1,949 | $8K |
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | 9.6% | 1,574 | 1,013 | $8K |
| V2200 | Sphere, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d, per lens | 8.1% | 714 | 554 | $6K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 3.1% | 1,448 | 1,432 | $2K |
| 92286 | <1% | 18 | 18 | $156.00 | |
| V2782 | Lens, index 1.54 to 1.65 plastic or 1.60 to 1.79 glass, excludes polycarbonate, per lens | 0% | 54 | 32 | $0.00 |
| S0620 | Routine ophthalmological examination including refraction; new patient | 0% | 18 | 18 | $0.00 |
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 0% | 51 | 31 | $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.