Bala, Stephen

Bala, Stephen was paid $20K by Medicaid between Jul 2021 and Aug 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99223, Prolong inpt eval add15 m — 76% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBALA, STEPHEN
LONG GROVE, IL 60047

33aNPI1912582339assigned 03/17/2021

33bProvider typeNurse Practitioner

28Total paid$20K

24GClaims223

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJul 2021 – Aug 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Nurse Practitioner providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#880 of 1,687

Median peer was paid$22K

This provider vs. median0.9×

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
2021	24	$82.54
2023	75	$8K
2024incomplete	124	$11K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99223	Prolong inpt eval add15 m	76%	134	130	$15K
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	24%	65	37	$5K
99308	Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward	<1%	24	21	$82.54

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.