Medicaid Provider SpendingClaims paid 2018–2024 · HHS public file
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Whalen, Brandon

Whalen, Brandon was paid $85K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 64% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoWHALEN, BRANDON
IOWA CITY, IA 52242
33aNPI1821356015assigned 04/25/2012
28Total paid$85K
24GClaims1,620
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Iowa

Rank by total paid#41 of 77
Median peer was paid$99K
This provider vs. median0.9×

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$2.0K$4.0K$6.0K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2018474$18K
2019284$11K
2020219$12K
2021131$9K
2022256$16K
2023185$13K
2024incomplete71$5K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99284 Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity 64% 1,010 961 $54K
99285 Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life 23% 283 253 $19K
99283 Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity 13% 327 311 $11K

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.