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Petrella, Robert

Petrella, Robert was paid $805K by Medicaid between Feb 2018 and May 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is 99283, emergency room visit (moderate) — 65% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPETRELLA, ROBERT
BOSTON, MA 02130
33aNPI1689619835assigned 06/19/2006
28Total paid$805K
24GClaims2,224
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2018 – May 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Massachusetts

Rank by total paid#26 of 618
Median peer was paid$8K
This provider vs. median97×

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

$0$20K$40K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
2018528$161K
201966$21K
2020617$251K
2021567$193K
2022291$121K
2023105$43K
2024incomplete50$16K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99283 Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity 65% 1,361 1,156 $519K
99284 Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity 26% 523 465 $210K
99285 Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life 5.8% 111 102 $47K
85025 Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count 1.4% 97 90 $11K
36415 Collection of venous blood by venipuncture <1% 57 51 $6K
99282 Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity <1% 12 12 $6K
U0003 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (dna or rna); severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), amplified probe technique, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r <1% 16 14 $2K
U0005 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (dna or rna); severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), amplified probe technique, cdc or non-cdc, making use of high throughput technologies, completed within 2 calendar days from date of specimen collection (list separately in addition to either hcpcs code u0003 or u0004) as described by cms-2020-01-r2 <1% 16 14 $2K
C9803 Hospital outpatient clinic visit specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source <1% 16 14 $2K
81001 <1% 15 12 $969.17

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.