Physician
Thomas, James
Thomas, James was paid $325K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 41% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTHOMAS, JAMES
BELLEVILLE, IL 62220
BELLEVILLE, IL 62220
33aNPI1316915218assigned 03/08/2006
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$325K
24GClaims5,723
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#379 of 1,980
Median peer was paid$150K
This provider vs. median2.2×
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 | 475 | $20K | |
| 2019 | 979 | $40K | |
| 2020 | 968 | $49K | |
| 2021 | 1,065 | $70K | |
| 2022 | 1,073 | $72K | |
| 2023 | 838 | $51K | |
| 2024incomplete | 325 | $22K |
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 | 41% | 1,920 | 1,763 | $133K |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 39% | 2,157 | 1,992 | $126K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 17% | 1,509 | 1,381 | $54K |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 3.7% | 124 | 120 | $12K |
| 99282 | Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity | <1% | 13 | 13 | $375.44 |
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.