Physician
Emergency Physicians of Tidewater
Emergency Physicians of Tidewater was paid $47.85M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 26 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 52% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoEMERGENCY PHYSICIANS OF TIDEWATER
NORFOLK, VA 23502
NORFOLK, VA 23502
33aNPI1033136841assigned 07/16/2006
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$47.85M
24GClaims866,380
24DCodes billed26
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Virginia
Rank by total paid#3 of 447
Median peer was paid$6K
This provider vs. median8,409×
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 | 60,439 | $2.40M | |
| 2019 | 124,774 | $6.31M | |
| 2020 | 104,705 | $5.97M | |
| 2021 | 128,439 | $6.88M | |
| 2022 | 146,726 | $7.28M | |
| 2023 | 163,310 | $9.65M | |
| 2024incomplete | 137,987 | $9.36M |
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 | 52% | 271,161 | 243,888 | $24.65M |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 34% | 270,997 | 244,838 | $16.14M |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 8.8% | 126,130 | 110,847 | $4.22M |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 2.9% | 12,321 | 11,339 | $1.40M |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | 1.6% | 173,160 | 147,820 | $776K |
| 99236 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | <1% | 1,970 | 1,800 | $258K |
| 99220 | <1% | 1,322 | 1,211 | $110K | |
| 99217 | <1% | 1,702 | 1,545 | $61K | |
| 10061 | <1% | 444 | 384 | $49K | |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | <1% | 426 | 402 | $47K |
| 99282 | Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity | <1% | 1,608 | 1,123 | $36K |
| 10060 | <1% | 457 | 382 | $24K |
14 more codes
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | <1% | 280 | $23K |
| 12001 | <1% | 512 | $16K | |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | <1% | 199 | $11K |
| 12011 | <1% | 186 | $8K | |
| 99281 | Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, self-limited or minor | <1% | 439 | $5K |
| 99235 | <1% | 31 | $3K | |
| 12002 | <1% | 70 | $3K | |
| 29125 | <1% | 78 | $2K | |
| 99053 | <1% | 2,313 | $2K | |
| 31500 | <1% | 13 | $1K | |
| 76815 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, limited | <1% | 117 | $695.28 |
| 93042 | <1% | 401 | $583.77 | |
| 93308 | <1% | 15 | $230.35 | |
| 15853 | 0% | 28 | $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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialTZAVARAS, THEODORE (AO)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Observation Physicians of Tidewater | Norfolk, VA | $161K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.