Physician
OIG excluded
Recchia, Nicholas
Recchia, Nicholas was paid $179K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2020, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 100% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoRECCHIA, NICHOLAS
MELROSE PARK, IL 60160
MELROSE PARK, IL 60160
33aNPI1033149455assigned 07/03/2006
33bProvider typeFamily Medicine Physician
28Total paid$179K
24GClaims2,887
24DCodes billed1
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2020
Compared with peers
Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#623 of 2,947
Median peer was paid$43K
This provider vs. median4.2×
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
OIG exclusionListed on the federal exclusion list (05/20/2025).
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 | 843 | $50K | |
| 2019 | 1,795 | $113K | |
| 2020 | 249 | $16K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99214 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity | 100% | 2,887 | 2,337 | $179K |
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.