Physician
Esmero, Veronica
Esmero, Veronica was paid $170K by Medicaid between Mar 2021 and Oct 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 99291, Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes — 98% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoESMERO, VERONICA
CHICAGO, IL 60612
CHICAGO, IL 60612
33aNPI1649685033assigned 06/25/2014
33bProvider typeCritical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician
28Total paid$170K
24GClaims1,610
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthMar 2021 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#29 of 189
Median peer was paid$43K
This provider vs. median4.0×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 376 | $33K | |
| 2022 | 380 | $42K | |
| 2023 | 496 | $52K | |
| 2024incomplete | 358 | $43K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 98% | 1,550 | 642 | $167K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 1.7% | 60 | 43 | $3K |
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.