Tidwell, Nichell

Tidwell, Nichell was paid $581K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 62% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTIDWELL, NICHELL
CHICAGO, IL 60611

33aNPI1740200765assigned 07/20/2006

33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician

28Total paid$581K

24GClaims10,043

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#96 of 1,980

Median peer was paid$150K

This provider vs. median3.9×

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	1,292	$38K
2019	1,651	$54K
2020	1,164	$44K
2021	1,763	$148K
2022	1,789	$140K
2023	1,305	$78K
2024incomplete	1,079	$79K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99284	Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity	62%	4,201	3,741	$359K
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	33%	4,736	4,231	$192K
99282	Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity	4.8%	1,087	942	$28K
99285	Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life	<1%	19	18	$3K

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.