Lekwuwa, Okafor

Lekwuwa, Okafor was paid $56K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2018, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 54% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoLEKWUWA, OKAFOR
EDEN, NC 27288

33aNPI1912942335assigned 06/19/2006

33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician

28Total paid$56K

24GClaims1,040

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2018

Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in North Carolina

Rank by total paid#111 of 196

Median peer was paid$120K

This provider vs. median0.5×

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	1,040	$56K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99284	Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity	54%	412	406	$30K
99285	Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life	30%	191	179	$17K
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	17%	251	245	$9K
99053		<1%	186	184	$25.22

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.