Physician
Piacenti, Merle
Piacenti, Merle was paid $4K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2022, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 71046, Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views — 50% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPIACENTI, MERLE
SPRING VALLEY, IL 61362
SPRING VALLEY, IL 61362
33aNPI1194894311assigned 11/06/2006
33bProvider typeDiagnostic Radiology Physician
28Total paid$4K
24GClaims463
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Diagnostic Radiology Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#958 of 1,075
Median peer was paid$76K
This provider vs. median0.0×
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 | 149 | $1K | |
| 2019 | 236 | $2K | |
| 2020 | 37 | $182.56 | |
| 2021 | 24 | $118.98 | |
| 2022 | 17 | $98.97 |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71046 | Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views | 50% | 395 | 381 | $2K |
| 70450 | Computed tomography, head or brain; without contrast material | 36% | 24 | 24 | $1K |
| 74177 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; with contrast material | 13% | 12 | 12 | $473.81 |
| 71045 | Radiologic examination, chest; single view | 1.9% | 32 | 27 | $71.11 |
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.