Physician
Western Medical Associates, PLLC
Western Medical Associates, PLLC was paid $2.63M by Medicaid between Mar 2019 and Dec 2021, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 53% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoWESTERN MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, PLLC
COEUR D ALENE, ID 83814
COEUR D ALENE, ID 83814
33aNPI1649734922assigned 01/30/2019
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$2.63M
24GClaims28,485
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthMar 2019 – Dec 2021
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Idaho
Rank by total paid#5 of 26
Median peer was paid$143K
This provider vs. median18×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 8,347 | $670K | |
| 2020 | 10,497 | $1.04M | |
| 2021 | 9,641 | $921K |
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 | 53% | 13,083 | 12,670 | $1.39M |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 46% | 14,577 | 14,188 | $1.20M |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 1.1% | 691 | 665 | $30K |
| 99220 | <1% | 71 | 67 | $8K | |
| 93042 | <1% | 63 | 59 | $229.80 |
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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialNICKOL, THOMAS (MANAGER)