Penas, Melissa

Penas, Melissa was paid $54K by Medicaid between May 2018 and Oct 2023, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 00170, Anesthesia for intraoral procedures, including biopsy — 70% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPENAS, MELISSA
CHICAGO, IL 60623

33aNPI1649272618assigned 08/10/2005

33bProvider typeAnesthesiology Physician

28Total paid$54K

24GClaims241

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthMay 2018 – Oct 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Anesthesiology Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#72 of 458

Median peer was paid$9K

This provider vs. median5.9×

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
2018	49	$3K
2019	32	$12K
2022	97	$26K
2023	63	$13K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
00170	Anesthesia for intraoral procedures, including biopsy	70%	145	142	$37K
01967	Neuraxial labor analgesia/anesthesia for planned vaginal delivery	20%	18	12	$11K
00812		4.5%	26	26	$2K
99242		3.4%	37	26	$2K
00731		2.5%	15	15	$1K

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.