Physician
Foster, Christie
Foster, Christie was paid $416K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 61% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFOSTER, CHRISTIE
MOUNT VERNON, IL 62864
MOUNT VERNON, IL 62864
33aNPI1366486235assigned 06/15/2006
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$416K
24GClaims8,458
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#234 of 1,980
Median peer was paid$150K
This provider vs. median2.8×
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 | 1,305 | $46K | |
| 2019 | 1,490 | $53K | |
| 2020 | 1,644 | $71K | |
| 2021 | 1,550 | $83K | |
| 2022 | 1,053 | $57K | |
| 2023 | 797 | $57K | |
| 2024incomplete | 619 | $49K |
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 | 61% | 4,819 | 4,360 | $252K |
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 25% | 1,445 | 1,310 | $104K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 13% | 1,685 | 1,513 | $56K |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | 1.0% | 509 | 465 | $4K |
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.