Medicaid Provider SpendingClaims paid 2018–2024 · HHS public file
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Babad, Joshua

Babad, Joshua was paid $123K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 92015, Determination of refractive state — 36% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBABAD, JOSHUA
SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062
33aNPI1902801939assigned 06/16/2005
33bProvider typeOphthalmology Physician
28Total paid$123K
24GClaims6,532
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Ophthalmology Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#262 of 759
Median peer was paid$35K
This provider vs. median3.5×

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$2.0K$4.0K$6.0K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2018566$9K
2019540$8K
20201,027$19K
2021998$18K
20221,275$24K
20231,984$42K
2024incomplete142$3K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
92015 Determination of refractive state 36% 2,857 2,857 $44K
92004 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient 20% 1,083 1,083 $24K
V2020 Frames, purchases 17% 1,036 1,036 $21K
92340 Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal 13% 851 851 $16K
92014 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient 13% 556 556 $16K
92002 1.1% 118 118 $1K
92341 <1% 31 31 $594.58

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.