Northwest Iowa Emergency Physicians, PC

Northwest Iowa Emergency Physicians, PC was paid $748K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jun 2019, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 44% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoNORTHWEST IOWA EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS, PC
SIOUX CITY, IA 51101

33aNPI1871519207assigned 07/15/2006

33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician

28Total paid$748K

24GClaims13,008

24DCodes billed7

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jun 2019

Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Iowa

Rank by total paid#11 of 77

Median peer was paid$99K

This provider vs. median7.5×

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	9,083	$508K
2019	3,925	$240K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99285	Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life	44%	4,227	3,789	$328K
99284	Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity	38%	5,352	4,807	$286K
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	18%	3,299	3,052	$131K
99291	Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes	<1%	33	26	$1K
99282	Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity	<1%	16	15	$376.25
G9744	Patient not eligible due to active diagnosis of hypertension	0%	67	49	$0.00
G8952	Elevated or hypertensive blood pressure reading documented, indicated follow-up not documented, reason not given	0%	14	13	$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.

From NPPES

Who's on the registration

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