Physician
Damtew, Belai
Damtew, Belai was paid $231K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jan 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 51% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDAMTEW, BELAI
CLEVELAND, OH 44130
CLEVELAND, OH 44130
33aNPI1831252956assigned 12/19/2006
33bProvider typeInfectious Disease Physician
28Total paid$231K
24GClaims11,976
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jan 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Infectious Disease Physician providers in Ohio
Rank by total paid#8 of 29
Median peer was paid$73K
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 | 1,948 | $25K | |
| 2019 | 1,436 | $22K | |
| 2020 | 2,251 | $34K | |
| 2021 | 2,235 | $50K | |
| 2022 | 2,267 | $51K | |
| 2023 | 1,770 | $48K | |
| 2024incomplete | 69 | $936.69 |
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 | 51% | 6,127 | 2,420 | $119K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 21% | 3,540 | 1,573 | $47K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 15% | 1,361 | 1,250 | $36K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 9.1% | 523 | 482 | $21K |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 2.9% | 266 | 82 | $7K |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | <1% | 92 | 87 | $1K |
| 99308 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward | <1% | 67 | 58 | $538.66 |
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.