Friedman, Stephen
Friedman, Stephen was paid $58K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 16 billing codes. Its largest line is 92012, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, intermediate, established patient — 38% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFRIEDMAN, STEPHEN
WEST NEW YORK, NJ 07093
WEST NEW YORK, NJ 07093
33aNPI1952463994assigned 12/15/2006
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$58K
24GClaims13,445
24DCodes billed16
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in New Jersey
Rank by total paid#132 of 599
Median peer was paid$2K
This provider vs. median32×
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 | 5,126 | $25K | |
| 2019 | 5,132 | $27K | |
| 2020 | 1,572 | $5K | |
| 2021 | 25 | $120.00 | |
| 2022 | 559 | $596.50 | |
| 2023 | 785 | $597.50 | |
| 2024incomplete | 246 | $142.00 |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92012 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, intermediate, established patient | 38% | 936 | 931 | $22K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 19% | 3,447 | 3,428 | $11K |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | 14% | 2,282 | 1,488 | $8K |
| 92002 | 13% | 790 | 787 | $7K | |
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | 7.0% | 1,768 | 1,163 | $4K |
| V2200 | Sphere, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d, per lens | 3.8% | 209 | 158 | $2K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 3.6% | 569 | 568 | $2K |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | <1% | 519 | 519 | $389.20 |
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | <1% | 461 | 461 | $166.80 |
| V2520 | Contact lens, hydrophilic, spherical, per lens | <1% | 12 | 12 | $100.00 |
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 0% | 1,563 | 987 | $0.00 |
| S0620 | Routine ophthalmological examination including refraction; new patient | 0% | 78 | 78 | $0.00 |
4 more codes
| V2104 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, 2.12 to 4.00d cylinder, per lens | 0% | 28 | $0.00 |
| V2523 | Contact lens, hydrophilic, extended wear, per lens | 0% | 57 | $0.00 |
| V2203 | Spherocylinder, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 0% | 670 | $0.00 |
| S0621 | Routine ophthalmological examination including refraction; established patient | 0% | 56 | $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.