Straus, Helen

Straus, Helen was paid $67K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jun 2021, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 56% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSTRAUS, HELEN
CHICAGO, IL 60612

33aNPI1013038827assigned 04/02/2007

33bProvider typeEmergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician

28Total paid$67K

24GClaims1,908

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jun 2021

Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#46 of 68

Median peer was paid$165K

This provider vs. median0.4×

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	263	$9K
2019	861	$27K
2020	660	$24K
2021	124	$7K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99284	Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity	56%	817	749	$37K
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	30%	676	633	$20K
99282	Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity	13%	392	359	$8K
99285	Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life	1.8%	23	23	$1K

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.