Cardenas, Maria
Cardenas, Maria was paid $234K by Medicaid between Apr 2019 and Oct 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 49% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCARDENAS, MARIA
WATSONVILLE, CA 95076
WATSONVILLE, CA 95076
33aNPI1790266377assigned 08/22/2018
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$234K
24GClaims11,949
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthApr 2019 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in California
Rank by total paid#268 of 1,899
Median peer was paid$23K
This provider vs. median10×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1,411 | $28K | |
| 2020 | 1,474 | $28K | |
| 2021 | 2,794 | $54K | |
| 2022 | 3,488 | $70K | |
| 2023 | 739 | $15K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,043 | $40K |
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 | 49% | 3,670 | 3,670 | $114K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 17% | 3,618 | 3,618 | $40K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 13% | 1,604 | 1,571 | $31K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | 9.7% | 1,172 | 1,139 | $23K |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | 6.9% | 1,566 | 1,343 | $16K |
| 92341 | 3.2% | 266 | 266 | $7K | |
| 92250 | <1% | 53 | 53 | $2K |
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.