Physician
Pollak, Alan
Pollak, Alan was paid $1.00M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is 99204, doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved) — 30% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPOLLAK, ALAN
SKOKIE, IL 60076
SKOKIE, IL 60076
33aNPI1790734069assigned 05/06/2006
33bProvider typeOtolaryngology Physician
28Total paid$1.00M
24GClaims17,357
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Otolaryngology Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#2 of 221
Median peer was paid$21K
This provider vs. median48×
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 | 2,726 | $159K | |
| 2019 | 4,007 | $242K | |
| 2020 | 3,144 | $183K | |
| 2021 | 2,788 | $160K | |
| 2022 | 2,485 | $148K | |
| 2023 | 1,386 | $70K | |
| 2024incomplete | 821 | $43K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 30% | 4,654 | 4,167 | $301K |
| 99214 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity | 20% | 4,274 | 3,631 | $205K |
| 31231 | 20% | 2,063 | 1,800 | $201K | |
| 31575 | 12% | 1,245 | 1,060 | $120K | |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 9.7% | 3,178 | 2,697 | $97K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 6.2% | 1,605 | 1,454 | $62K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | 1.3% | 138 | 115 | $13K |
| 92567 | <1% | 126 | 97 | $2K | |
| 69436 | Tympanostomy (requiring insertion of ventilating tube), general anesthesia | <1% | 19 | 12 | $1K |
| 99202 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, straightforward | <1% | 42 | 40 | $1K |
| 69210 | <1% | 13 | 12 | $267.50 |
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.