Physician
Konala, Sivasankara
Konala, Sivasankara was paid $81K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Apr 2020, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 39% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoKONALA, SIVASANKARA
SAINT LOUIS, MO 63136
SAINT LOUIS, MO 63136
33aNPI1538104229assigned 06/18/2006
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$81K
24GClaims1,558
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Apr 2020
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Missouri
Rank by total paid#84 of 571
Median peer was paid$14K
This provider vs. median5.8×
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 | 891 | $46K | |
| 2019 | 542 | $29K | |
| 2020 | 125 | $7K |
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 | 39% | 496 | 493 | $32K |
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 21% | 184 | 184 | $17K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 20% | 428 | 427 | $16K |
| 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 | 13% | 184 | 183 | $10K |
| 87502 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid, influenza virus, for multiple types or subtypes, includes all targets | 4.8% | 38 | 38 | $4K |
| S9088 | Services provided in an urgent care center (list in addition to code for service) | 2.1% | 213 | 212 | $2K |
| 99053 | <1% | 15 | 15 | $132.10 |
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.