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Pophal, Stephen

Pophal, Stephen was paid $24K by Medicaid between Feb 2022 and Nov 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 93306, Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete — 38% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPOPHAL, STEPHEN
CHICAGO, IL 60637
33aNPI1629000963assigned 07/07/2006
28Total paid$24K
24GClaims1,264
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2022 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Pediatric Cardiology Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#62 of 78
Median peer was paid$95K
This provider vs. median0.3×

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

$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
2022201$3K
2023464$9K
2024incomplete599$12K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
93306 Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete 38% 210 176 $9K
93010 Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only 36% 856 751 $9K
99232 Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity 11% 55 12 $3K
93303 Transthoracic echocardiography for congenital cardiac anomalies, follow-up or limited study 6.9% 43 37 $2K
93325 4.8% 57 50 $1K
93320 3.2% 43 37 $776.10

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.