Physician
Chinwuba, Ebele
Chinwuba, Ebele was paid $656K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 45% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHINWUBA, EBELE
CHICAGO, IL 60637
CHICAGO, IL 60637
33aNPI1093886517assigned 11/13/2006
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$656K
24GClaims11,776
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#69 of 1,980
Median peer was paid$150K
This provider vs. median4.4×
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 | 1,537 | $67K | |
| 2019 | 1,961 | $82K | |
| 2020 | 1,574 | $75K | |
| 2021 | 2,167 | $130K | |
| 2022 | 2,077 | $133K | |
| 2023 | 1,219 | $79K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,241 | $89K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 45% | 4,892 | 4,443 | $297K |
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 28% | 2,053 | 1,890 | $182K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 26% | 4,678 | 4,205 | $171K |
| 99282 | Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity | <1% | 140 | 130 | $4K |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | <1% | 13 | 13 | $2K |
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.