Physician
Altman, Benjamin
Altman, Benjamin was paid $127K by Medicaid between Aug 2018 and Mar 2020, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 54% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoALTMAN, BENJAMIN
BRISTOL, TN 37620
BRISTOL, TN 37620
33aNPI1619942380assigned 02/17/2006
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$127K
24GClaims2,626
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthAug 2018 – Mar 2020
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Tennessee
Rank by total paid#89 of 332
Median peer was paid$56K
This provider vs. median2.3×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 855 | $36K | |
| 2019 | 1,480 | $76K | |
| 2020 | 291 | $15K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 54% | 1,132 | 967 | $69K |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 32% | 806 | 698 | $41K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 14% | 600 | 502 | $18K |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | <1% | 88 | 75 | $226.48 |
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.