Tam, Melissa

Tam, Melissa was paid $12K by Medicaid between Aug 2021 and Oct 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 96% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTAM, MELISSA
VALLEY STREAM, NY 11580

33aNPI1487186219assigned 03/30/2017

33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician

28Total paid$12K

24GClaims280

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthAug 2021 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in New York

Rank by total paid#578 of 2,113

Median peer was paid$5K

This provider vs. median2.7×

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
2021	12	$199.56
2022	26	$731.72
2023	100	$4K
2024incomplete	142	$7K

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	96%	268	265	$12K
99284	Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity	3.5%	12	12	$432.33

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.