Church, Benjamin

Church, Benjamin was paid $159K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 55% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCHURCH, BENJAMIN
AMHERST, MA 01003

33aNPI1427477447assigned 04/08/2014

33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician

28Total paid$159K

24GClaims1,533

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Massachusetts

Rank by total paid#165 of 1,270

Median peer was paid$8K

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	27	$3K
2019	146	$17K
2020	14	$1K
2021	361	$35K
2022	454	$43K
2023	294	$32K
2024incomplete	237	$27K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99285	Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life	55%	678	656	$88K
99284	Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity	40%	716	701	$64K
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	4.2%	139	134	$7K

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.