Physician
Demeter, Lela
Demeter, Lela was paid $249K by Medicaid between May 2022 and Feb 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 87635, Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe — 48% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDEMETER, LELA
PALOS HEIGHTS, IL 60463
PALOS HEIGHTS, IL 60463
33aNPI1285763607assigned 03/02/2007
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$249K
24GClaims6,864
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthMay 2022 – Feb 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#293 of 3,722
Median peer was paid$26K
This provider vs. median9.7×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3,070 | $112K | |
| 2023 | 3,584 | $130K | |
| 2024incomplete | 210 | $7K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87635 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe | 48% | 2,335 | 484 | $119K |
| 87426 | Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 31% | 2,212 | 455 | $77K |
| G2023 | Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source | 16% | 1,717 | 325 | $40K |
| 99000 | 5.5% | 600 | 174 | $14K |
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.