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Batista, Ernest

Batista, Ernest was paid $12K by Medicaid between Jul 2022 and Nov 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 74177, Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; with contrast material — 60% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBATISTA, ERNEST
BALTIMORE, MD 21287
33aNPI1538690458assigned 03/22/2017
28Total paid$12K
24GClaims1,248
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJul 2022 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Diagnostic Radiology Physician providers in Maryland

Rank by total paid#33 of 70
Median peer was paid$6K
This provider vs. median2.0×

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$500$1.0K$1.5K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2022135$1K
2023524$4K
2024incomplete589$7K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
74177 Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; with contrast material 60% 195 187 $7K
71045 Radiologic examination, chest; single view 22% 936 688 $3K
74176 Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; without contrast material 9.0% 57 57 $1K
71275 Computed tomographic angiography, chest, with contrast material 6.8% 28 27 $818.00
76705 Ultrasound, abdominal, real time with image documentation; limited 1.5% 14 13 $182.72
71250 <1% 18 18 $117.57

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.