Physician
Okpala, Augustine
Okpala, Augustine was paid $4K by Medicaid between Jul 2019 and Nov 2020, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 72% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoOKPALA, AUGUSTINE
NEWTON, NJ 07860
NEWTON, NJ 07860
33aNPI1124085766assigned 04/27/2006
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$4K
24GClaims91
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJul 2019 – Nov 2020
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in New Jersey
Rank by total paid#758 of 1,027
Median peer was paid$30K
This provider vs. median0.1×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 79 | $3K | |
| 2020 | 12 | $1K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 72% | 79 | 12 | $3K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | 28% | 12 | 12 | $1K |
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.