Physician
Desai, Palak
Desai, Palak was paid $455K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 34% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDESAI, PALAK
CHICAGO, IL 60622
CHICAGO, IL 60622
33aNPI1386964781assigned 06/08/2010
33bProvider typeMedical Oncology Physician
28Total paid$455K
24GClaims10,669
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Medical Oncology Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#2 of 70
Median peer was paid$23K
This provider vs. median19×
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 | 582 | $16K | |
| 2019 | 1,743 | $46K | |
| 2020 | 1,718 | $61K | |
| 2021 | 1,722 | $79K | |
| 2022 | 1,793 | $84K | |
| 2023 | 1,603 | $72K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,508 | $96K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 34% | 4,814 | 1,417 | $153K |
| 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 | 31% | 2,620 | 2,320 | $141K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 29% | 2,636 | 2,365 | $131K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | 3.4% | 188 | 184 | $15K |
| 99254 | 1.4% | 105 | 91 | $6K | |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 1.1% | 248 | 108 | $5K |
| 99255 | <1% | 43 | 41 | $3K | |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | <1% | 15 | 14 | $257.00 |
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.