Physician
Buchbinder, Alan
Buchbinder, Alan was paid $374K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2021, across 18 billing codes. Its largest line is 76816, Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, follow-up — 26% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBUCHBINDER, ALAN
IOWA CITY, IA 52242
IOWA CITY, IA 52242
33aNPI1922048123assigned 06/07/2006
33bProvider typeObstetrics & Gynecology Physician
28Total paid$374K
24GClaims7,244
24DCodes billed18
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2021
Compared with peers
Next to other Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician providers in Iowa
Rank by total paid#7 of 42
Median peer was paid$20K
This provider vs. median19×
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 | 2,149 | $81K | |
| 2019 | 2,543 | $124K | |
| 2020 | 1,700 | $105K | |
| 2021 | 852 | $63K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76816 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, follow-up | 26% | 1,811 | 1,581 | $96K |
| 76818 | 19% | 1,266 | 838 | $71K | |
| 76815 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, limited | 11% | 790 | 589 | $42K |
| 76811 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, fetal and maternal evaluation, detailed | 10% | 537 | 414 | $39K |
| 76817 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, transvaginal | 10% | 793 | 684 | $37K |
| 76820 | 5.8% | 515 | 393 | $22K | |
| 76805 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, fetal and maternal evaluation | 4.0% | 316 | 280 | $15K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 3.0% | 285 | 119 | $11K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 2.6% | 75 | 67 | $10K |
| 76821 | 2.1% | 185 | 134 | $8K | |
| 59025 | Fetal non-stress test | 1.8% | 313 | 141 | $7K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 1.0% | 58 | 26 | $4K |
6 more codes
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) | <1% | 73 | $3K |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | <1% | 62 | $3K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine) | <1% | 62 | $3K |
| 76801 | <1% | 43 | $2K | |
| 0502F | <1% | 27 | $1K | |
| 76819 | Fetal biophysical profile; without non-stress testing | <1% | 33 | $865.26 |
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.