Gastala, Joseph

Gastala, Joseph was paid $155K by Medicaid between Jul 2019 and Nov 2024, across 15 billing codes. Its largest line is 70450, Computed tomography, head or brain; without contrast material — 54% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoGASTALA, JOSEPH
ELMHURST, IL 60126

33aNPI1801152517assigned 04/06/2012

33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician

28Total paid$155K

24GClaims6,167

24DCodes billed15

24AFirst – last monthJul 2019 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#496 of 3,722

Median peer was paid$26K

This provider vs. median6.0×

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	268	$6K
2020	1,031	$19K
2021	1,815	$41K
2022	1,272	$37K
2023	1,318	$41K
2024incomplete	463	$11K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
70450	Computed tomography, head or brain; without contrast material	54%	1,254	1,148	$83K
74177	Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; with contrast material	26%	841	804	$40K
71045	Radiologic examination, chest; single view	6.5%	2,346	1,976	$10K
71046	Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views	4.9%	1,293	1,173	$8K
71275	Computed tomographic angiography, chest, with contrast material	2.7%	40	38	$4K
74176	Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; without contrast material	2.7%	97	95	$4K
76705	Ultrasound, abdominal, real time with image documentation; limited	<1%	72	71	$1K
72125	Computed tomography, cervical spine; without contrast material	<1%	38	37	$1K
70553	Magnetic resonance imaging, brain; without contrast material, followed by contrast material and further sequences	<1%	17	15	$805.21
71260	Computed tomography, thorax, diagnostic; with contrast material	<1%	13	13	$638.52
73630		<1%	59	53	$555.26
74018		<1%	58	52	$193.76

3 more codes

73610	<1%	14	$174.02
73564	<1%	13	$131.58
73130	<1%	12	$111.31

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.