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
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
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 | 5,179 | $99K | |
| 2020 | 3,425 | $56K | |
| 2021 | 6,994 | $114K | |
| 2022 | 17,189 | $278K | |
| 2023 | 15,806 | $194K | |
| 2024incomplete | 12,490 | $165K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.