Cortez, Joseph

Cortez, Joseph was paid $200K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 43% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCORTEZ, JOSEPH
MUNSTER, IN 46321

33aNPI1053381103assigned 01/23/2006

33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician

28Total paid$200K

24GClaims3,285

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Indiana

Rank by total paid#82 of 191

Median peer was paid$126K

This provider vs. median1.6×

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	543	$24K
2019	547	$22K
2020	234	$11K
2021	308	$20K
2022	554	$37K
2023	475	$33K
2024incomplete	624	$54K

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	43%	1,122	1,061	$87K
99284	Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity	43%	1,302	1,231	$86K
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	14%	777	729	$27K
93010	Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only	<1%	71	67	$649.41
G8952	Elevated or hypertensive blood pressure reading documented, indicated follow-up not documented, reason not given	0%	13	12	$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.