Vakkalanka, Bhanu

Vakkalanka, Bhanu was paid $50K by Medicaid between Jan 2020 and Nov 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 58% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoVAKKALANKA, BHANU
NORMAL, IL 61761

33aNPI1578766796assigned 06/06/2007

33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician

28Total paid$50K

24GClaims1,487

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2020 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#1,330 of 3,722

Median peer was paid$26K

This provider vs. median1.9×

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
2020	228	$6K
2021	423	$16K
2022	537	$17K
2023	60	$2K
2024incomplete	239	$10K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
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	58%	712	562	$29K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	39%	744	661	$19K
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	1.9%	12	12	$946.58
88305	Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination	1.4%	19	18	$700.60

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.