Spontak, Stephen

Spontak, Stephen was paid $184K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 69% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSPONTAK, STEPHEN
PALOS HEIGHTS, IL 60463

33aNPI1275531121assigned 07/13/2005

33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician

28Total paid$184K

24GClaims2,784

24DCodes billed7

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#840 of 1,980

Median peer was paid$150K

This provider vs. median1.2×

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	384	$18K
2019	454	$23K
2020	387	$25K
2021	370	$29K
2022	457	$36K
2023	462	$37K
2024incomplete	270	$16K

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	69%	1,728	1,572	$128K
99284	Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity	23%	749	721	$43K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	3.5%	131	125	$6K
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	2.5%	137	130	$5K
99291	Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes	<1%	12	12	$2K
87635	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe	<1%	12	12	$615.72
87880	Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A	<1%	15	15	$235.50

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.