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Cheng, John

Cheng, John was paid $16K by Medicaid between Jan 2020 and Dec 2020, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 37% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCHENG, JOHN
ATLANTA, GA 30342
33aNPI1548216229assigned 05/25/2006
28Total paid$16K
24GClaims170
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2020 – Dec 2020
Compared with peers

Next to other Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Pediatrics) Physician providers in Georgia

Rank by total paid#2 of 5
Median peer was paid$865.28
This provider vs. median19×

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$2.0K$4.0K$6.0K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2020170$16K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99284 Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity 37% 51 51 $6K
99283 Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity 35% 92 90 $6K
99285 Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life 28% 27 27 $5K

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.