Physician
Al-Saraf, Ammar
Al-Saraf, Ammar was paid $869K by Medicaid between Mar 2019 and Dec 2024, across 57 billing codes. Its largest line is 70450, Computed tomography, head or brain; without contrast material — 23% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoAL-SARAF, AMMAR
CHICAGO, IL 60608
CHICAGO, IL 60608
33aNPI1720423312assigned 05/08/2013
33bProvider typeSurgery Physician
28Total paid$869K
24GClaims33,603
24DCodes billed57
24AFirst – last monthMar 2019 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Surgery Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#6 of 422
Median peer was paid$5K
This provider vs. median172×
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 | 2,796 | $52K | |
| 2020 | 7,644 | $159K | |
| 2021 | 8,090 | $212K | |
| 2022 | 7,677 | $246K | |
| 2023 | 3,383 | $93K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,013 | $106K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70450 | Computed tomography, head or brain; without contrast material | 23% | 2,936 | 2,696 | $199K |
| 74177 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; with contrast material | 14% | 2,760 | 2,619 | $125K |
| 71275 | Computed tomographic angiography, chest, with contrast material | 11% | 901 | 844 | $92K |
| 77067 | Screening mammography, bilateral, including computer-aided detection | 6.0% | 2,102 | 1,968 | $53K |
| 71045 | Radiologic examination, chest; single view | 4.8% | 9,314 | 7,411 | $41K |
| 76805 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, fetal and maternal evaluation | 4.6% | 1,207 | 1,051 | $40K |
| 72125 | Computed tomography, cervical spine; without contrast material | 3.9% | 952 | 833 | $34K |
| 74176 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; without contrast material | 3.5% | 800 | 747 | $30K |
| 76816 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, follow-up | 2.8% | 719 | 683 | $24K |
| 76819 | Fetal biophysical profile; without non-stress testing | 2.2% | 712 | 477 | $19K |
| 76801 | 1.9% | 512 | 490 | $17K | |
| 77063 | Screening digital breast tomosynthesis, bilateral | 1.6% | 522 | 423 | $14K |
45 more codes
| 71046 | Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views | 1.5% | 2,121 | $13K |
| 76830 | Ultrasound, transvaginal | 1.5% | 345 | $13K |
| 71250 | 1.4% | 436 | $12K | |
| 76642 | 1.3% | 488 | $11K | |
| 71260 | Computed tomography, thorax, diagnostic; with contrast material | 1.3% | 299 | $11K |
| 76856 | Ultrasound, pelvic (nonobstetric), real time with image documentation; complete | 1.2% | 307 | $11K |
| 77066 | Tomosynthesis, mammo | 1.1% | 296 | $9K |
| 73610 | <1% | 631 | $9K | |
| 73562 | <1% | 742 | $8K | |
| 76815 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, limited | <1% | 263 | $8K |
| 73630 | <1% | 711 | $7K | |
| 76705 | Ultrasound, abdominal, real time with image documentation; limited | <1% | 313 | $6K |
| 73130 | <1% | 640 | $6K | |
| 70486 | <1% | 156 | $6K | |
| 73030 | <1% | 462 | $5K | |
| 76817 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, transvaginal | <1% | 155 | $5K |
| 73721 | Magnetic resonance imaging, any joint of lower extremity; without contrast material | <1% | 52 | $4K |
| 74183 | <1% | 28 | $4K | |
| 73221 | <1% | 36 | $4K | |
| 78452 | Myocardial perfusion imaging, tomographic (SPECT); multiple studies at rest and/or stress | <1% | 46 | $4K |
| 73590 | <1% | 243 | $2K | |
| 73110 | <1% | 198 | $2K | |
| 76641 | <1% | 71 | $2K | |
| 70496 | <1% | 16 | $2K | |
| 74174 | <1% | 27 | $2K | |
| 72170 | <1% | 212 | $2K | |
| G0279 | Diagnostic digital breast tomosynthesis, unilateral or bilateral (list separately in addition to 77065 or 77066) | <1% | 58 | $2K |
| 70498 | <1% | 14 | $2K | |
| 77065 | Tomosynthesis, mammo | <1% | 55 | $1K |
| 76536 | <1% | 29 | $1K | |
| 70551 | Magnetic resonance imaging, brain; without contrast material | <1% | 15 | $1K |
| 73564 | <1% | 86 | $1K | |
| 73560 | <1% | 102 | $975.89 | |
| 73565 | <1% | 68 | $973.05 | |
| 71271 | <1% | 30 | $945.94 | |
| 93970 | <1% | 45 | $750.07 | |
| 73090 | <1% | 77 | $674.58 | |
| 74018 | <1% | 98 | $421.05 | |
| 73502 | <1% | 67 | $375.21 | |
| 76700 | Ultrasound, abdominal, real time with image documentation; complete | <1% | 14 | $344.56 |
| 72100 | <1% | 26 | $326.90 | |
| 76775 | <1% | 13 | $306.95 | |
| 73552 | <1% | 47 | $253.93 | |
| 73080 | <1% | 13 | $138.50 | |
| 73140 | <1% | 15 | $107.91 |
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.