Medicaid Provider SpendingClaims paid 2018–2024 · HHS public file
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Merlino, Brian

Merlino, Brian was paid $907K by Medicaid between Jan 2019 and Dec 2024, across 22 billing codes. Its largest line is V2020, Frames, purchases — 69% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMERLINO, BRIAN
PALM HARBOR, FL 34684
33aNPI1841418555assigned 04/20/2007
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$907K
24GClaims61,083
24DCodes billed22
24AFirst – last monthJan 2019 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Optometrist providers in Florida

Rank by total paid#8 of 941
Median peer was paid$21K
This provider vs. median42×

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

$0$20K$40K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
20195,179$99K
20203,425$56K
20216,994$114K
202217,189$278K
202315,806$194K
2024incomplete12,490$165K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
V2020 Frames, purchases 69% 16,213 14,266 $628K
92014 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient 7.7% 1,122 1,092 $70K
92340 Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal 5.2% 16,036 14,216 $47K
V2203 Spherocylinder, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens 4.4% 1,795 1,505 $40K
92004 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient 4.2% 642 627 $38K
V2500 Contact lens, pmma, spherical, per lens 3.3% 328 323 $30K
V2103 Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens 3.0% 10,673 8,992 $27K
V2100 Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens 1.2% 4,389 3,752 $11K
V2104 Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, 2.12 to 4.00d cylinder, per lens <1% 1,421 1,197 $4K
92341 <1% 437 313 $4K
V2200 Sphere, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d, per lens <1% 241 231 $3K
V2107 Spherocylinder, single vision, plus or minus 4.25 to plus or minus 7.00 sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens <1% 901 767 $3K
10 more codes
92015 Determination of refractive state <1% 2,052 $475.00
V2300 Sphere, trifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d, per lens <1% 12 $417.00
2022F <1% 1,112 $415.05
V2108 Spherocylinder, single vision, plus or minus 4.25d to plus or minus 7.00d sphere, 2.12 to 4.00d cylinder, per lens <1% 14 $230.00
V2799 Vision item or service, miscellaneous 0% 94 $0.00
V2105 Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, 4.25 to 6.00d cylinder, per lens 0% 13 $0.00
V2744 Tint, photochromatic, per lens 0% 12 $0.00
V2025 Deluxe frame 0% 132 $0.00
V2750 Anti-reflective coating, per lens 0% 734 $-203.50
V2784 Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens 0% 2,710 $-268.50

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.