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Plans whose provider directory lists this clinician
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
Largest Original Medicare bills
Established patient complete exam of visual system
11
$630
$57
Photography of the retina
13
$146
$11
Who their Medicare patients are
15 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 73 · Also on Medicaid 0% · Health risk score 0.67. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical optometry clinician is at 0.97.
The office billed $3,895, Medicare allowed $2,160 and paid $1,151; for 29 services of 5 kinds.
Original Medicare patients only. A risk score of 1.0 is the average Medicare patient; higher means sicker. Any count under 11 is hidden.
Year by year
Original Medicare by year
2024
15
29
73
0.67
$3,895
$1,151
2023
43
108
75
0.81
$9,705
$4,488
2022
33
68
75
0.69
$6,580
$3,380
2021
53
105
73
0.77
$10,735
$5,061
2020
31
91
73
0.66
$7,643
$3,549
2019
38
106
73
0.82
$8,698
$4,439
2018
46
136
76
0.75
$10,578
$5,417
2017
43
126
74
0.78
$8,840
$4,736
2016
39
111
72
0.62
$9,442
$4,971
2015
40
116
74
0.92
$9,677
$4,724
2014
36
98
75
0.97
$7,444
$4,102
2013
39
107
72
0.79
$8,667
$4,860
Original Medicare only. A service billed for fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden, so the lines can add up to less than the year's total.
See the services billed each year
2023: 2 services
Original Medicare services billed in 2023
Established patient complete exam of visual system
31
$2,310
$75
Photography of the retina
40
$813
$14
2022: 2 services
Original Medicare services billed in 2022
Established patient complete exam of visual system
23
$1,732
$75
Photography of the retina
30
$899
$26
2021: 2 services
Original Medicare services billed in 2021
Established patient complete exam of visual system
42
$2,904
$69
Photography of the retina
51
$1,483
$29
2020: 2 services
Original Medicare services billed in 2020
Established patient complete exam of visual system
21
$1,577
$75
Photography of the retina
31
$1,089
$19
2019: 2 services
Original Medicare services billed in 2019
Established patient complete exam of visual system
25
$1,968
$79
Photography of the retina
32
$1,293
$20
2018: 2 services
Original Medicare services billed in 2018
Established patient complete exam of visual system
38
$2,802
$74
Photography of the retina
41
$1,660
$20
2017: 2 services
Original Medicare services billed in 2017
Established patient complete exam of visual system
37
$2,656
$72
Photography of the retina
41
$1,767
$21
2016: 2 services
Original Medicare services billed in 2016
Established patient complete exam of visual system
32
$2,485
$78
Photography of the retina
33
$1,379
$22
2015: 2 services
Original Medicare services billed in 2015
Established patient complete exam of visual system
27
$1,731
$64
Photography of the retina
33
$1,463
$22
2014: 2 services
Original Medicare services billed in 2014
Established patient complete exam of visual system
27
$1,713
$63
Photography of the retina
32
$1,486
$25
2013: 3 services
Original Medicare services billed in 2013
Established patient complete exam of visual system
23
$1,607
$70
Photography of the retina
34
$1,527
$24
New patient complete exam of visual system
12
$973
$81
Money from drug and device companies
$50 in 2023
Industry payments by year
2023
2
2
—None
$50
2022
1
1
—None
$34
2021
1
1
—None
$18
2020
2
2
—None
$53
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.