Physician
Nwakudu, Obidike
Nwakudu, Obidike was paid $274K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99283, emergency room visit (moderate) — 36% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoNWAKUDU, OBIDIKE
OAK BROOK, IL 60523
OAK BROOK, IL 60523
33aNPI1225238504assigned 07/24/2007
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$274K
24GClaims5,776
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#522 of 1,980
Median peer was paid$150K
This provider vs. median1.8×
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 | 800 | $28K | |
| 2019 | 1,130 | $36K | |
| 2020 | 1,027 | $40K | |
| 2021 | 1,156 | $58K | |
| 2022 | 551 | $36K | |
| 2023 | 533 | $33K | |
| 2024incomplete | 579 | $44K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 36% | 2,850 | 2,531 | $100K |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 36% | 1,687 | 1,546 | $99K |
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 22% | 646 | 593 | $61K |
| 99282 | Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity | 4.7% | 528 | 496 | $13K |
| 99281 | Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, self-limited or minor | <1% | 65 | 64 | $918.40 |
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.