Tarantino, Celeste

Tarantino, Celeste was paid $11K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2020, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 58% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTARANTINO, CELESTE
KANSAS CITY, MO 64108

33aNPI1164480257assigned 05/01/2006

33bProvider typePediatric Emergency Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician

28Total paid$11K

24GClaims200

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2020

Compared with peers

Next to other Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician providers in Missouri

Rank by total paid#18 of 21

Median peer was paid$53K

This provider vs. median0.2×

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	85	$5K
2019	86	$4K
2020	29	$1K

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	58%	87	85	$7K
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	39%	100	100	$4K
99282	Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity	3.0%	13	13	$330.58

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.