Physician
Vates, Christopher
Vates, Christopher was paid $5K by Medicaid between Jul 2021 and Apr 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 77% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoVATES, CHRISTOPHER
HERSHEY, PA 17033
HERSHEY, PA 17033
33aNPI1831366640assigned 05/12/2008
33bProvider typeEmergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician
28Total paid$5K
24GClaims85
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJul 2021 – Apr 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician providers in Pennsylvania
Rank by total paid#31 of 39
Median peer was paid$30K
This provider vs. median0.2×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | $2K | |
| 2022 | 26 | $2K | |
| 2023 | 27 | $498.76 | |
| 2024incomplete | 15 | $325.89 |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 77% | 29 | 28 | $4K |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | 23% | 56 | 50 | $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.