Castro, J Eric

Castro, J Eric was paid $181K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 45% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCASTRO, J ERIC
LIBERTYVILLE, IL 60048

33aNPI1316971807assigned 07/10/2006

33bProvider typeProcedural Dermatology Physician

28Total paid$181K

24GClaims3,683

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Procedural Dermatology Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#2 of 7

Median peer was paid$39K

This provider vs. median4.6×

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
2018	780	$30K
2019	619	$25K
2020	187	$9K
2021	482	$25K
2022	440	$21K
2023	498	$26K
2024incomplete	677	$45K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99284	Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity	45%	1,427	1,304	$81K
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	35%	1,702	1,585	$63K
99285	Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life	19%	482	469	$35K
99282	Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity	<1%	59	58	$1K
99281	Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, self-limited or minor	<1%	13	13	$185.38

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.