Physician
Kacha, Aalok
Kacha, Aalok was paid $129K by Medicaid between Aug 2018 and May 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 99291, Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes — 81% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoKACHA, AALOK
CHICAGO, IL 60637
CHICAGO, IL 60637
33aNPI1861773079assigned 09/01/2011
33bProvider typeCritical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician
28Total paid$129K
24GClaims1,467
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthAug 2018 – May 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#1 of 13
Median peer was paid$12K
This provider vs. median11×
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 | 93 | $9K | |
| 2019 | 129 | $13K | |
| 2020 | 244 | $27K | |
| 2021 | 238 | $21K | |
| 2022 | 259 | $10K | |
| 2023 | 383 | $33K | |
| 2024incomplete | 121 | $16K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 81% | 824 | 265 | $105K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 19% | 643 | 262 | $24K |
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.