Celestine Tchikounzi PLLC

Celestine Tchikounzi PLLC was paid $227K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 46% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCELESTINE TCHIKOUNZI PLLC
MESA, AZ 85209

33aNPI1841662293assigned 10/26/2015

33bProvider typeInfectious Disease Physician

28Total paid$227K

24GClaims4,208

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Infectious Disease Physician providers in Arizona

Rank by total paid#34 of 53

Median peer was paid$438K

This provider vs. median0.5×

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
2018	610	$29K
2019	916	$49K
2020	1,048	$58K
2021	894	$56K
2022	482	$23K
2023	197	$9K
2024incomplete	61	$4K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	46%	2,490	1,133	$105K
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	44%	1,509	680	$100K
99254		8.1%	128	127	$18K
99222	Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	2.0%	81	77	$5K

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.

From NPPES

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialTCHIKOUNZI, CELESTINE (SOLE MEMBER)