Physician
Costello, James
Costello, James was paid $89K by Medicaid between Sep 2022 and Oct 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 58% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCOSTELLO, JAMES
WAKEFIELD, RI 02879
WAKEFIELD, RI 02879
33aNPI1033649959assigned 06/13/2017
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$89K
24GClaims823
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthSep 2022 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Rhode Island
Rank by total paid#101 of 188
Median peer was paid$94K
This provider vs. median0.9×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 43 | $4K | |
| 2023 | 523 | $57K | |
| 2024incomplete | 257 | $28K |
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 | 58% | 410 | 392 | $52K |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 41% | 400 | 385 | $36K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | <1% | 13 | 13 | $583.04 |
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.