Desai, Vijay

Desai, Vijay was paid $260K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 42% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoDESAI, VIJAY
WATSEKA, IL 60970

33aNPI1497748040assigned 08/30/2005

33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician

28Total paid$260K

24GClaims5,420

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#556 of 1,980

Median peer was paid$150K

This provider vs. median1.7×

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
2018	1,454	$50K
2019	856	$30K
2020	842	$38K
2021	812	$47K
2022	566	$33K
2023	700	$48K
2024incomplete	190	$15K

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	42%	1,971	1,855	$110K
99285	Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life	29%	1,057	980	$75K
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	27%	2,128	1,950	$70K
99282	Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity	2.2%	264	261	$6K

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.