Physician
Cheng, Lin
Cheng, Lin was paid $320K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 33 billing codes. Its largest line is 88305, Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination — 48% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHENG, LIN
CHICAGO, IL 60612
CHICAGO, IL 60612
33aNPI1275820946assigned 07/01/2011
33bProvider typeAnatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician
28Total paid$320K
24GClaims30,278
24DCodes billed33
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#98 of 398
Median peer was paid$66K
This provider vs. median4.9×
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 | 2,282 | $22K | |
| 2019 | 3,775 | $34K | |
| 2020 | 4,558 | $44K | |
| 2021 | 4,751 | $53K | |
| 2022 | 7,265 | $66K | |
| 2023 | 4,203 | $53K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,444 | $47K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88305 | Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination | 48% | 3,838 | 3,468 | $154K |
| 88112 | 8.7% | 1,387 | 1,200 | $28K | |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 8.3% | 5,200 | 1,286 | $27K |
| 88342 | 6.6% | 1,594 | 1,447 | $21K | |
| 88173 | 6.5% | 442 | 390 | $21K | |
| 83735 | 4.9% | 4,156 | 780 | $16K | |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 3.9% | 4,062 | 1,274 | $13K |
| 88141 | 2.7% | 945 | 844 | $8K | |
| 85027 | 2.2% | 2,227 | 523 | $7K | |
| 87624 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; human papillomavirus (HPV), high-risk types | 2.2% | 476 | 418 | $7K |
| 85610 | <1% | 1,384 | 511 | $3K | |
| 86850 | <1% | 766 | 430 | $2K |
21 more codes
| 88341 | <1% | 62 | $2K | |
| 86901 | <1% | 773 | $2K | |
| 85730 | <1% | 416 | $2K | |
| 88307 | <1% | 32 | $1K | |
| 86900 | <1% | 772 | $1K | |
| 82962 | <1% | 955 | $1K | |
| 88172 | <1% | 31 | $777.63 | |
| 87205 | <1% | 371 | $754.57 | |
| 88304 | <1% | 31 | $521.90 | |
| 89051 | <1% | 79 | $336.48 | |
| 87116 | <1% | 32 | $236.72 | |
| 87015 | <1% | 29 | $149.30 | |
| 87206 | <1% | 28 | $146.26 | |
| 87102 | <1% | 21 | $100.10 | |
| 83690 | <1% | 28 | $94.92 | |
| 81001 | <1% | 50 | $76.25 | |
| 82728 | <1% | 18 | $74.34 | |
| 83550 | <1% | 16 | $69.20 | |
| 83615 | <1% | 25 | $54.60 | |
| 83540 | <1% | 16 | $51.52 | |
| 84157 | <1% | 16 | $19.36 |
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.