Physician
Tamura, Ralph
Tamura, Ralph was paid $143K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jan 2023, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 76817, Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, transvaginal — 30% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTAMURA, RALPH
CHICAGO, IL 60611
CHICAGO, IL 60611
33aNPI1861418691assigned 07/14/2006
33bProvider typeMaternal & Fetal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$143K
24GClaims4,566
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jan 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Maternal & Fetal Medicine Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#45 of 70
Median peer was paid$210K
This provider vs. median0.7×
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 | 555 | $16K | |
| 2019 | 677 | $20K | |
| 2020 | 531 | $15K | |
| 2021 | 1,479 | $47K | |
| 2022 | 1,306 | $44K | |
| 2023 | 18 | $591.64 |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76817 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, transvaginal | 30% | 1,554 | 1,443 | $43K |
| 76805 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, fetal and maternal evaluation | 25% | 1,085 | 939 | $35K |
| 76816 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, follow-up | 24% | 1,091 | 1,008 | $35K |
| 76830 | Ultrasound, transvaginal | 12% | 441 | 409 | $17K |
| 76856 | Ultrasound, pelvic (nonobstetric), real time with image documentation; complete | 6.7% | 297 | 273 | $10K |
| 76801 | 1.5% | 66 | 57 | $2K | |
| 76811 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, fetal and maternal evaluation, detailed | <1% | 19 | 15 | $1K |
| 76815 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, limited | <1% | 13 | 13 | $425.66 |
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.