Okechukwu, Christopher

Okechukwu, Christopher was paid $6K by Medicaid between Apr 2019 and Jul 2021, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 93% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoOKECHUKWU, CHRISTOPHER
NEWTON, NJ 07860

33aNPI1275528143assigned 09/15/2005

33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician

28Total paid$6K

24GClaims184

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthApr 2019 – Jul 2021

Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in New Jersey

Rank by total paid#137 of 235

Median peer was paid$10K

This provider vs. median0.6×

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	87	$3K
2020	84	$3K
2021	13	$465.64

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99285	Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life	93%	171	168	$6K
99284	Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity	7.0%	13	13	$445.70

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.