Merchak, Assaad

Merchak, Assaad was paid $102K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and May 2019, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99469, Subsequent inpatient neonatal critical care, per day, 28 days or younger — 49% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMERCHAK, ASSAAD
SAINT LOUIS, MO 63141

33aNPI1942251681assigned 05/15/2006

33bProvider typeNeonatal-Perinatal Medicine Physician

28Total paid$102K

24GClaims415

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – May 2019

Compared with peers

Next to other Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Physician providers in Missouri

Rank by total paid#19 of 51

Median peer was paid$56K

This provider vs. median1.8×

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	271	$56K
2019	144	$46K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99469	Subsequent inpatient neonatal critical care, per day, 28 days or younger	49%	102	39	$50K
99472	Subsequent inpatient pediatric critical care, per day, 2-5 years	23%	60	12	$24K
99480	Subsequent intensive care, per day, low birth weight infant	19%	178	60	$20K
99479	Subsequent intensive care, per day, very low birth weight infant	8.3%	75	24	$8K

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.