Balek, Mark

Balek, Mark was paid $516K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 18 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 25% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBALEK, MARK
OAK PARK, IL 60302

33aNPI1952557316assigned 08/16/2008

33bProvider typeNuclear Cardiology Physician

28Total paid$516K

24GClaims15,480

24DCodes billed18

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Nuclear Cardiology Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#1 of 11

Median peer was paid$151K

This provider vs. median3.4×

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	992	$17K
2019	1,846	$43K
2020	2,021	$63K
2021	2,061	$71K
2022	2,794	$106K
2023	3,358	$115K
2024incomplete	2,408	$102K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	25%	3,504	1,822	$130K
99223	Prolong inpt eval add15 m	22%	1,636	1,497	$114K
93306	Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete	21%	4,124	3,856	$111K
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	12%	2,437	1,387	$63K
99214	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity	10.0%	1,682	1,527	$51K
78452	Myocardial perfusion imaging, tomographic (SPECT); multiple studies at rest and/or stress	3.1%	510	439	$16K
93018		1.5%	423	355	$8K
93000		1.2%	489	470	$6K
78431		<1%	62	62	$5K
J2785	Injection, regadenoson, 0.1 mg	<1%	95	89	$4K
93016		<1%	256	215	$4K
A9555	Rubidium rb-82, diagnostic, per study dose, up to 60 millicuries	<1%	12	12	$2K

6 more codes

93015		<1%	110	$1K
99222	Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	<1%	13	$602.18
93010	Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only	<1%	50	$303.29
78434		<1%	49	$246.74
93308		<1%	15	$97.95
Q9967	Low osmolar contrast material, 300-399 mg/ml iodine concentration, per ml	<1%	13	$31.23

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.