Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center, INC
Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center, INC was paid $2.86M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 23 billing codes. Its largest line is 92507, Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder — 54% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER, INC
BUFFALO, NY 14203
BUFFALO, NY 14203
33aNPI1891745758assigned 05/11/2006
33bProvider typeAudiologist-Hearing Aid Fitter
28Total paid$2.86M
24GClaims45,448
24DCodes billed23
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Audiologist-Hearing Aid Fitter providers in New York
Rank by total paid#1 of 17
Median peer was paid$24K
This provider vs. median117×
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 | 2,686 | $125K | |
| 2019 | 5,373 | $321K | |
| 2020 | 5,696 | $374K | |
| 2021 | 6,653 | $434K | |
| 2022 | 6,536 | $423K | |
| 2023 | 10,070 | $650K | |
| 2024incomplete | 8,434 | $537K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 54% | 18,903 | 4,189 | $1.54M |
| V5020 | Conformity evaluation | 8.5% | 4,748 | 3,432 | $242K |
| 92567 | 8.5% | 4,703 | 4,673 | $242K | |
| 92557 | 6.4% | 3,216 | 3,085 | $184K | |
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 5.2% | 2,373 | 936 | $148K |
| 92523 | 4.7% | 1,039 | 1,030 | $135K | |
| 92526 | 3.1% | 1,386 | 291 | $89K | |
| H2014 | Skills training and development, per 15 minutes | 2.0% | 984 | 378 | $58K |
| V5266 | Battery for use in hearing device | 1.6% | 5,007 | 4,941 | $47K |
| 97110 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion | 1.4% | 641 | 194 | $41K |
| S9445 | Patient education, not otherwise classified, non-physician provider, individual, per session | 1.3% | 612 | 284 | $39K |
| V5011 | Fitting/orientation/checking of hearing aid | <1% | 492 | 388 | $26K |
11 more codes
| 92579 | <1% | 252 | $15K | |
| 92587 | <1% | 258 | $13K | |
| V5257 | Hearing aid, digital, monaural, bte | <1% | 40 | $12K |
| V5264 | Ear mold/insert, not disposable, any type | <1% | 364 | $12K |
| V5010 | Assessment for hearing aid | <1% | 155 | $8K |
| 92552 | <1% | 79 | $5K | |
| 92555 | <1% | 75 | $3K | |
| 92582 | <1% | 39 | $2K | |
| V2799 | Vision item or service, miscellaneous | <1% | 28 | $2K |
| 92620 | <1% | 12 | $887.88 | |
| 92556 | <1% | 42 | $663.38 |
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 officialCOZZO, JOSEPH (PRESIDENT/CEO)