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Lai-Becker, Melisa

Lai-Becker, Melisa was paid $176K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2022, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 45% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoLAI-BECKER, MELISA
BOSTON, MA 02114
33aNPI1457387920assigned 06/24/2006
28Total paid$176K
24GClaims2,538
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2022
Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Massachusetts

Rank by total paid#67 of 618
Median peer was paid$8K
This provider vs. median21×

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

$0$5.0K$10K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
2018313$22K
2019690$50K
2020569$44K
2021564$38K
2022402$22K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99284 Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity 45% 893 886 $79K
99283 Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity 37% 1,389 1,382 $64K
99285 Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life 19% 256 254 $33K

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.