Physician
Buhimschi, Catalin
Buhimschi, Catalin was paid $735K by Medicaid between Mar 2019 and Nov 2024, across 16 billing codes. Its largest line is 76816, Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, follow-up — 20% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBUHIMSCHI, CATALIN
CHICAGO, IL 60612
CHICAGO, IL 60612
33aNPI1588647655assigned 11/22/2005
33bProvider typeObstetrics & Gynecology Physician
28Total paid$735K
24GClaims10,793
24DCodes billed16
24AFirst – last monthMar 2019 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#39 of 911
Median peer was paid$41K
This provider vs. median18×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2,156 | $186K | |
| 2020 | 3,980 | $387K | |
| 2021 | 1,203 | $42K | |
| 2022 | 1,120 | $36K | |
| 2023 | 995 | $30K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,339 | $53K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76816 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, follow-up | 20% | 2,635 | 2,373 | $147K |
| 76811 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, fetal and maternal evaluation, detailed | 19% | 1,219 | 1,090 | $140K |
| 76817 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, transvaginal | 13% | 1,981 | 1,755 | $99K |
| 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 | 11% | 523 | 421 | $81K |
| 76815 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, limited | 6.6% | 1,093 | 801 | $49K |
| 76801 | 6.2% | 620 | 575 | $45K | |
| 76805 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, fetal and maternal evaluation | 6.0% | 589 | 527 | $44K |
| 59025 | Fetal non-stress test | 5.6% | 1,313 | 876 | $41K |
| 76813 | 5.1% | 412 | 379 | $37K | |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 3.0% | 97 | 80 | $22K |
| 76818 | 1.9% | 162 | 106 | $14K | |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 1.5% | 68 | 62 | $11K |
4 more codes
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.