Physician
Nicola, Heidi
Nicola, Heidi was paid $25K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2022, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 97% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoNICOLA, HEIDI
SOUTH HOLLAND, IL 60473
SOUTH HOLLAND, IL 60473
33aNPI1417122763assigned 04/28/2008
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$25K
24GClaims746
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#1,872 of 3,722
Median peer was paid$26K
This provider vs. median1.0×
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 | 96 | $2K | |
| 2019 | 32 | $633.80 | |
| 2020 | 306 | $9K | |
| 2021 | 185 | $7K | |
| 2022 | 127 | $7K |
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 | 97% | 709 | 220 | $25K |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | 3.0% | 37 | 28 | $751.89 |
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.