Bucur, Cristina
Bucur, Cristina was paid $823K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is V5261, Hearing aid, digital, binaural, bte — 34% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBUCUR, CRISTINA
CHICAGO, IL 60630
CHICAGO, IL 60630
33aNPI1902276892assigned 10/05/2015
33bProvider typeHearing Instrument Specialist
28Total paid$823K
24GClaims11,753
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Hearing Instrument Specialist providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#3 of 5
Median peer was paid$823K
This provider vs. median1.0×
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 | 604 | $14K | |
| 2019 | 1,415 | $116K | |
| 2020 | 1,834 | $55K | |
| 2021 | 1,975 | $103K | |
| 2022 | 2,118 | $186K | |
| 2023 | 2,205 | $180K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,602 | $168K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V5261 | Hearing aid, digital, binaural, bte | 34% | 374 | 365 | $277K |
| V5266 | Battery for use in hearing device | 30% | 10,521 | 10,358 | $245K |
| V5160 | Dispensing fee, binaural | 24% | 581 | 552 | $199K |
| V5014 | Repair/modification of a hearing aid | 12% | 277 | 277 | $101K |
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.