Physician
Buddharaju, Venkata
Buddharaju, Venkata was paid $159K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 68% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBUDDHARAJU, VENKATA
CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60012
CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60012
33aNPI1508145327assigned 08/10/2011
33bProvider typeNephrology Physician
28Total paid$159K
24GClaims4,722
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Nephrology Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#73 of 327
Median peer was paid$68K
This provider vs. median2.3×
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 | 444 | $8K | |
| 2019 | 320 | $6K | |
| 2020 | 746 | $20K | |
| 2021 | 703 | $21K | |
| 2022 | 881 | $30K | |
| 2023 | 895 | $35K | |
| 2024incomplete | 733 | $39K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 68% | 3,483 | 1,142 | $108K |
| 99214 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity | 20% | 894 | 827 | $31K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 12% | 333 | 312 | $19K |
| G2211 | Visit complexity inherent to evaluation and management associated with medical care services that serve as the continuing focal point for all needed health care services and/or with medical care services that are part of ongoing care related to a patient's single, serious condition or a complex condition. (add-on code, list separately in addition to office/outpatient evaluation and management visit, new or established) | <1% | 12 | 12 | $41.41 |
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.