Balk, Robert

Balk, Robert was paid $18K by Medicaid between Dec 2018 and Mar 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99291, Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes — 41% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBALK, ROBERT
CHICAGO, IL 60612

33aNPI1134173503assigned 05/20/2006

33bProvider typeCritical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician

28Total paid$18K

24GClaims334

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthDec 2018 – Mar 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#120 of 189

Median peer was paid$43K

This provider vs. median0.4×

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	50	$1K
2020	63	$2K
2021	44	$1K
2022	102	$8K
2023	60	$4K
2024incomplete	15	$951.12

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99291	Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes	41%	55	33	$7K
99214	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity	30%	109	106	$5K
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	23%	120	59	$4K
94003		6.2%	50	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.