Physician
Smoot, Joseph
Smoot, Joseph was paid $38K by Medicaid between Nov 2020 and Jun 2022, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 75% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSMOOT, JOSEPH
BETHLEHEM, PA 18015
BETHLEHEM, PA 18015
33aNPI1013437920assigned 06/21/2017
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$38K
24GClaims760
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthNov 2020 – Jun 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Pennsylvania
Rank by total paid#470 of 1,211
Median peer was paid$19K
This provider vs. median1.9×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 40 | $2K | |
| 2021 | 482 | $21K | |
| 2022 | 238 | $15K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 75% | 509 | 502 | $28K |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 15% | 115 | 115 | $6K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 9.2% | 97 | 95 | $3K |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | <1% | 39 | 38 | $269.25 |
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.