Physician
Ekstein, Charles
Ekstein, Charles was paid $204K by Medicaid between Jan 2019 and Jan 2022, across 18 billing codes. Its largest line is 99203, doctor's office visit, new patient (routine) — 42% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoEKSTEIN, CHARLES
FAIR LAWN, NJ 07410
FAIR LAWN, NJ 07410
33aNPI1689930141assigned 04/09/2012
33bProvider typeOrthopaedic Surgery Physician
28Total paid$204K
24GClaims3,576
24DCodes billed18
24AFirst – last monthJan 2019 – Jan 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Orthopaedic Surgery Physician providers in New Jersey
Rank by total paid#23 of 61
Median peer was paid$50K
This provider vs. median4.1×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 342 | $2K | |
| 2020 | 43 | $0.00 | |
| 2021 | 3,139 | $198K | |
| 2022 | 52 | $4K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 42% | 850 | 850 | $86K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 27% | 837 | 812 | $56K |
| 73030 | 6.0% | 364 | 339 | $12K | |
| 73110 | 5.9% | 302 | 267 | $12K | |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | 4.9% | 227 | 222 | $10K |
| 20550 | 3.6% | 136 | 118 | $7K | |
| 20610 | 3.1% | 82 | 80 | $6K | |
| 99202 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, straightforward | 2.8% | 74 | 74 | $6K |
| 73140 | 1.4% | 82 | 78 | $3K | |
| J0702 | Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg | 1.2% | 286 | 284 | $2K |
| 99204 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity | <1% | 13 | 13 | $2K |
| 73130 | <1% | 33 | 25 | $1K |
6 more codes
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.