Estime, Stephen

Estime, Stephen was paid $107K by Medicaid between Jun 2018 and May 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99291, Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes — 76% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoESTIME, STEPHEN
CHICAGO, IL 60637

33aNPI1801189709assigned 05/25/2011

33bProvider typeAnesthesiology Physician

28Total paid$107K

24GClaims1,239

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJun 2018 – May 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Anesthesiology Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#39 of 458

Median peer was paid$9K

This provider vs. median12×

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	196	$19K
2019	120	$12K
2020	250	$24K
2021	188	$24K
2022	309	$25K
2023	143	$3K
2024incomplete	33	$989.17

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	76%	713	216	$81K
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	9.8%	214	87	$10K
01967	Neuraxial labor analgesia/anesthesia for planned vaginal delivery	8.5%	15	15	$9K
99231	Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity	6.0%	297	120	$6K

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.