Physician
Melin Aldana, Hector
Melin Aldana, Hector was paid $271K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 88305, Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination — 58% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMELIN ALDANA, HECTOR
CHICAGO, IL 60614
CHICAGO, IL 60614
33aNPI1124028352assigned 07/29/2005
33bProvider typeClinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine Physician
28Total paid$271K
24GClaims5,846
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#14 of 34
Median peer was paid$104K
This provider vs. median2.6×
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 | 692 | $23K | |
| 2019 | 1,068 | $31K | |
| 2020 | 1,075 | $42K | |
| 2021 | 1,082 | $60K | |
| 2022 | 687 | $44K | |
| 2023 | 579 | $33K | |
| 2024incomplete | 663 | $38K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88305 | Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination | 58% | 2,128 | 1,843 | $157K |
| 88307 | 19% | 852 | 741 | $52K | |
| 88313 | 8.9% | 917 | 764 | $24K | |
| 88342 | 7.6% | 1,054 | 904 | $21K | |
| 88304 | 6.4% | 835 | 808 | $17K | |
| 88312 | <1% | 18 | 14 | $149.27 | |
| 88302 | <1% | 13 | 12 | $131.93 | |
| 88300 | <1% | 14 | 14 | $95.18 | |
| 88108 | <1% | 15 | 15 | $70.35 |
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.