Nachef, Zahi

Nachef, Zahi was paid $47K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2023, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 99291, Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes — 43% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoNACHEF, ZAHI
DECATUR, IL 62526

33aNPI1336427863assigned 08/02/2011

33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician

28Total paid$47K

24GClaims1,427

24DCodes billed8

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#1,370 of 3,722

Median peer was paid$26K

This provider vs. median1.8×

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	308	$4K
2019	324	$6K
2020	174	$5K
2021	365	$9K
2022	179	$18K
2023	77	$6K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99291	Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes	43%	159	62	$21K
99214	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity	37%	635	599	$18K
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	14%	168	95	$7K
94726		1.8%	147	133	$857.55
94618		1.4%	57	53	$659.63
94729		1.3%	146	133	$607.08
94010		1.1%	96	88	$526.51
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	<1%	19	13	$199.20

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.