Physician
Kolekar, Charu
Kolekar, Charu was paid $30K by Medicaid between Dec 2018 and Jun 2022, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 83% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoKOLEKAR, CHARU
FESTUS, MO 63028
FESTUS, MO 63028
33aNPI1811320856assigned 08/13/2013
33bProvider typeGeriatric Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician
28Total paid$30K
24GClaims1,241
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthDec 2018 – Jun 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Geriatric Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician providers in Missouri
Rank by total paid#8 of 20
Median peer was paid$17K
This provider vs. median1.8×
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 | 31 | $348.60 | |
| 2019 | 524 | $7K | |
| 2020 | 295 | $6K | |
| 2021 | 193 | $7K | |
| 2022 | 198 | $9K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 83% | 954 | 380 | $25K |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | 13% | 186 | 177 | $4K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 4.0% | 101 | 62 | $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.