Medicaid Provider SpendingClaims paid 2018–2024 · HHS public file
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Sunkara, Sai

Sunkara, Sai was paid $137K by Medicaid between Aug 2018 and Oct 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 99291, Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes — 91% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSUNKARA, SAI
CHICAGO, IL 60612
33aNPI1801024153assigned 06/25/2009
28Total paid$137K
24GClaims1,838
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthAug 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#39 of 189
Median peer was paid$43K
This provider vs. median3.2×

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$10K$20K2018201920202021202220232024
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
201860$1K
2019501$41K
202095$27K
2021177$13K
2022173$10K
2023433$10K
2024incomplete399$35K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99291 Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes 91% 742 299 $124K
94060 3.3% 374 348 $5K
94726 1.8% 323 298 $3K
95806 1.8% 31 21 $2K
94729 1.4% 353 328 $2K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity <1% 15 12 $1K

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.