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Hightower, Kandice

Hightower, Kandice was paid $658K by Medicaid between Nov 2022 and Dec 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is 99204, doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved) — 72% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoHIGHTOWER, KANDICE
CHICAGO, IL 60622
33aNPI1568196012assigned 07/11/2022
28Total paid$658K
24GClaims4,625
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthNov 2022 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Family Nurse Practitioner providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#38 of 3,353
Median peer was paid$25K
This provider vs. median27×

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$20K$40K$60K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2022659$13K
20232,506$290K
2024incomplete1,460$355K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99204 Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity 72% 2,091 1,894 $476K
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 22% 608 594 $142K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 3.0% 456 379 $20K
20610 1.2% 165 127 $8K
20552 <1% 148 129 $4K
80305 <1% 459 374 $4K
99212 Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward <1% 101 97 $2K
20553 <1% 54 48 $2K
99203 Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity <1% 13 13 $563.68
J1100 Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg <1% 501 391 $233.96
81025 <1% 29 26 $144.24

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.