Cruz, Christopher

Cruz, Christopher was paid $278K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 46% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCRUZ, CHRISTOPHER
GLEN CARBON, IL 62034

33aNPI1427043769assigned 09/13/2005

33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician

28Total paid$278K

24GClaims5,860

24DCodes billed7

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#505 of 1,980

Median peer was paid$150K

This provider vs. median1.9×

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	1,010	$37K
2019	1,083	$43K
2020	1,733	$81K
2021	753	$47K
2022	554	$30K
2023	597	$32K
2024incomplete	130	$8K

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	46%	2,419	2,203	$128K
99285	Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life	33%	1,437	1,292	$90K
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	18%	1,486	1,334	$49K
99282	Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity	3.4%	388	369	$9K
99291	Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes	<1%	13	13	$1K
93010	Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only	<1%	77	75	$552.02
99053		0%	40	40	$0.00

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.