Physician
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
CHICAGO, IL 60612
33aNPI1801024153assigned 06/25/2009
33bProvider typeCritical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician
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
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 | 60 | $1K | |
| 2019 | 501 | $41K | |
| 2020 | 95 | $27K | |
| 2021 | 177 | $13K | |
| 2022 | 173 | $10K | |
| 2023 | 433 | $10K | |
| 2024incomplete | 399 | $35K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.