Physician
Kwak, Stephen
Kwak, Stephen was paid $40K by Medicaid between Aug 2020 and Nov 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is 74177, Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; with contrast material — 68% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoKWAK, STEPHEN
LAKE FOREST, IL 60045
LAKE FOREST, IL 60045
33aNPI1831517580assigned 03/31/2014
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$40K
24GClaims2,297
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthAug 2020 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#1,523 of 3,722
Median peer was paid$26K
This provider vs. median1.5×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 280 | $4K | |
| 2021 | 417 | $8K | |
| 2022 | 525 | $9K | |
| 2023 | 615 | $11K | |
| 2024incomplete | 460 | $9K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74177 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; with contrast material | 68% | 616 | 590 | $27K |
| 71045 | Radiologic examination, chest; single view | 9.8% | 848 | 773 | $4K |
| 71046 | Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views | 9.2% | 639 | 625 | $4K |
| 71275 | Computed tomographic angiography, chest, with contrast material | 4.6% | 14 | 14 | $2K |
| 70450 | Computed tomography, head or brain; without contrast material | 2.1% | 12 | 12 | $822.32 |
| 74176 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; without contrast material | 1.7% | 19 | 19 | $668.58 |
| 71260 | Computed tomography, thorax, diagnostic; with contrast material | 1.5% | 12 | 12 | $580.06 |
| 71250 | 1.1% | 12 | 12 | $420.14 | |
| 76705 | Ultrasound, abdominal, real time with image documentation; limited | 1.0% | 26 | 26 | $405.08 |
| 73630 | <1% | 20 | 17 | $232.15 | |
| G1004 | Clinical decision support mechanism national decision support company, as defined by the medicare appropriate use criteria program | 0% | 79 | 60 | $0.00 |
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.