Mermelstein, Richard

Mermelstein, Richard was paid $6K by Medicaid between Jul 2018 and Oct 2019, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 85% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMERMELSTEIN, RICHARD
W HEMPSTEAD, NY 11552

33aNPI1629488440assigned 05/01/2014

33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician

28Total paid$6K

24GClaims206

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJul 2018 – Oct 2019

Compared with peers

Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in New York

Rank by total paid#3,595 of 6,049

Median peer was paid$11K

This provider vs. median0.5×

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	137	$4K
2019	69	$2K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	85%	178	43	$5K
99223	Prolong inpt eval add15 m	11%	14	12	$635.58
99238	Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less	4.1%	14	12	$246.22

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.