Physician
Howell, Nicole
Howell, Nicole was paid $336K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 14 billing codes. Its largest line is 88305, Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination — 29% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoHOWELL, NICOLE
URBANA, IL 61801
URBANA, IL 61801
33aNPI1679778815assigned 06/18/2007
33bProvider typeAnatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician
28Total paid$336K
24GClaims29,122
24DCodes billed14
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#95 of 398
Median peer was paid$66K
This provider vs. median5.1×
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 | 736 | $11K | |
| 2019 | 4,792 | $49K | |
| 2020 | 3,975 | $40K | |
| 2021 | 4,978 | $54K | |
| 2022 | 5,705 | $65K | |
| 2023 | 4,600 | $58K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,336 | $59K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88305 | Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination | 29% | 2,971 | 2,816 | $98K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 27% | 9,394 | 8,308 | $92K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 16% | 9,861 | 8,521 | $54K |
| 88307 | 15% | 818 | 744 | $52K | |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | 6.0% | 2,566 | 2,321 | $20K |
| 83735 | 1.5% | 816 | 667 | $5K | |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | 1.0% | 1,115 | 1,012 | $3K |
| 85027 | <1% | 587 | 551 | $3K | |
| 88342 | <1% | 212 | 203 | $3K | |
| 88304 | <1% | 110 | 107 | $2K | |
| 81015 | <1% | 469 | 399 | $1K | |
| 88141 | <1% | 45 | 43 | $636.11 |
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.