Desantis, Melissa

Desantis, Melissa was paid $2K by Medicaid between Dec 2018 and Oct 2020, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 67% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoDESANTIS, MELISSA
WILLIAMSVILLE, NY 14221

33aNPI1891778338assigned 11/29/2005

33bProvider typeEmergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician

28Total paid$2K

24GClaims128

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthDec 2018 – Oct 2020

Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician providers in New York

Rank by total paid#52 of 88

Median peer was paid$4K

This provider vs. median0.6×

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	13	$35.00
2019	14	$280.39
2020	101	$2K

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	67%	74	72	$2K
99284	Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity	32%	41	39	$769.02
99051		1.4%	13	13	$35.00

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.