Hickombottom, Ronald

Hickombottom, Ronald was paid $186K by Medicaid between Dec 2019 and Oct 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 99350, Prolong home eval add 15m — 50% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoHICKOMBOTTOM, RONALD
CHICAGO, IL 60661

33aNPI1023020989assigned 08/12/2006

33bProvider typeSports Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician

28Total paid$186K

24GClaims4,057

24DCodes billed9

24AFirst – last monthDec 2019 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Sports Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#1 of 7

Median peer was paid$19K

This provider vs. median9.7×

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
2019	47	$49.07
2020	1,010	$19K
2021	622	$17K
2022	611	$27K
2023	1,046	$73K
2024incomplete	721	$50K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99350	Prolong home eval add 15m	50%	798	768	$94K
99349		34%	931	824	$62K
G0179	Physician or allowed practitioner re-certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians and allowed practitioners to affirm the initial implementation of the plan of care	5.5%	1,268	1,261	$10K
G0180	Physician or allowed practitioner certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians and allowed practitioners to affirm the initial implementation of the plan of care	4.3%	753	748	$8K
99345	Prolong home eval add 15m	4.2%	56	56	$8K
G0181	Physician or allowed practitioner supervision of a patient receiving medicare-covered services provided by a participating home health agency (patient not present) requiring complex and multidisciplinary care modalities involving regular physician or allowed practitioner development and/or revision of care plans	<1%	134	134	$1K
99348		<1%	34	33	$1K
99442		<1%	32	32	$751.67
99491	Ccm add 20min	<1%	51	51	$576.53

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.