Physician
Pennix, Charles
Pennix, Charles was paid $605K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 53% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPENNIX, CHARLES
DECATUR, IL 62521
DECATUR, IL 62521
33aNPI1437447091assigned 07/18/2011
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$605K
24GClaims9,615
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#86 of 1,980
Median peer was paid$150K
This provider vs. median4.0×
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 | 1,319 | $51K | |
| 2019 | 1,538 | $68K | |
| 2020 | 1,840 | $100K | |
| 2021 | 1,811 | $133K | |
| 2022 | 1,436 | $109K | |
| 2023 | 854 | $66K | |
| 2024incomplete | 817 | $79K |
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 | 53% | 3,924 | 3,516 | $320K |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 28% | 2,955 | 2,642 | $170K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 13% | 2,429 | 2,122 | $80K |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 5.7% | 307 | 282 | $34K |
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.