DRS Airala Laser & Cataract Institute PA

DRS Airala Laser & Cataract Institute PA was paid $183K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 23 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 46% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoDRS AIRALA LASER & CATARACT INSTITUTE PA
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FL 33162

33aNPI1871551051assigned 05/03/2006

33bProvider typeOphthalmology Physician

28Total paid$183K

24GClaims19,505

24DCodes billed23

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Ophthalmology Physician providers in Florida

Rank by total paid#37 of 262

Median peer was paid$9K

This provider vs. median21×

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	3,043	$8K
2019	6,154	$90K
2020	4,033	$50K
2021	2,044	$9K
2022	2,282	$4K
2023	923	$8K
2024incomplete	1,026	$15K

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	46%	5,241	3,831	$85K
92004	Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient	31%	1,185	704	$57K
66984	Extracapsular cataract removal with insertion of intraocular lens prosthesis	12%	283	204	$22K
92134		4.6%	2,915	1,959	$8K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	2.4%	746	476	$4K
92083		1.1%	722	418	$2K
92136		<1%	140	111	$1K
92250		<1%	716	466	$990.29
92133		<1%	386	269	$739.37
92012	Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, intermediate, established patient	<1%	568	281	$683.82
92226		<1%	1,808	747	$479.04
92201		<1%	1,335	818	$382.89

11 more codes

92225		<1%	317	$336.80
92020		<1%	31	$229.55
2022F		<1%	741	$15.51
2027F		0%	355	$0.00
G8421	Bmi not documented and no reason is given	0%	177	$0.00
G8427	Eligible clinician attests to documenting in the medical record they obtained, updated, or reviewed the patient's current medications	0%	186	$0.00
1036F		0%	915	$0.00
3284F		0%	393	$0.00
4177F		0%	143	$0.00
G8428	Current list of medications not documented as obtained, updated, or reviewed by the eligible clinician, reason not given	0%	41	$0.00
99024		0%	161	$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.

From NPPES

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialESQUENAZI, SALOMON (PRESIDENT)

Same official

Other billing entities under ESQUENAZI, SALOMON

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Provider	Location	Paid
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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.