Mekhaiel, Essam

Mekhaiel, Essam was paid $426K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99291, Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes — 74% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMEKHAIEL, ESSAM
CHICAGO RIDGE, IL 60415

33aNPI1659558666assigned 01/22/2008

33bProvider typePulmonary Disease Physician

28Total paid$426K

24GClaims6,818

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Pulmonary Disease Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#16 of 212

Median peer was paid$51K

This provider vs. median8.4×

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	884	$30K
2019	1,203	$52K
2020	1,541	$93K
2021	1,170	$98K
2022	835	$59K
2023	502	$36K
2024incomplete	683	$59K

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	74%	3,474	1,449	$317K
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	22%	3,100	1,519	$96K
31645		2.4%	97	78	$10K
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	<1%	134	71	$2K
99255		<1%	13	13	$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.