Physician
Watson, Richard
Watson, Richard was paid $637K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 32 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 24% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoWATSON, RICHARD
CHICAGO HEIGHTS, IL 60411
CHICAGO HEIGHTS, IL 60411
33aNPI1962472886assigned 01/24/2006
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$637K
24GClaims15,928
24DCodes billed32
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#73 of 1,980
Median peer was paid$150K
This provider vs. median4.2×
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 | 613 | $24K | |
| 2019 | 1,035 | $44K | |
| 2020 | 1,569 | $66K | |
| 2021 | 7,010 | $244K | |
| 2022 | 4,738 | $184K | |
| 2024incomplete | 963 | $76K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 24% | 2,932 | 2,379 | $155K |
| 87426 | Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 16% | 2,997 | 1,858 | $105K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 10% | 1,724 | 1,510 | $66K |
| 86328 | 9.5% | 1,371 | 930 | $61K | |
| 99493 | 8.9% | 747 | 695 | $57K | |
| 99204 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity | 8.7% | 1,076 | 844 | $56K |
| U0003 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (dna or rna); severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), amplified probe technique, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r | 3.2% | 277 | 167 | $21K |
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 2.2% | 247 | 238 | $14K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 2.0% | 354 | 283 | $13K |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 1.9% | 287 | 280 | $12K |
| M0243 | Intravenous infusion or subcutaneous injection, casirivimab and imdevimab includes infusion or injection, and post administration monitoring | 1.9% | 27 | 14 | $12K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | 1.8% | 110 | 104 | $12K |
20 more codes
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex) | 1.7% | 184 | $11K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate) | 1.4% | 284 | $9K |
| 99492 | 1.3% | 122 | $8K | |
| U0005 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (dna or rna); severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), amplified probe technique, cdc or non-cdc, making use of high throughput technologies, completed within 2 calendar days from date of specimen collection (list separately in addition to either hcpcs code u0003 or u0004) as described by cms-2020-01-r2 | 1.1% | 286 | $7K |
| 99000 | <1% | 877 | $6K | |
| 0011A | <1% | 88 | $4K | |
| 0012A | <1% | 62 | $3K | |
| 0071A | <1% | 50 | $2K | |
| 0001A | <1% | 37 | $2K | |
| 0004A | <1% | 27 | $1K | |
| 0002A | <1% | 21 | $884.94 | |
| 99072 | <1% | 1,110 | $689.70 | |
| 0072A | <1% | 16 | $674.24 | |
| 99202 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, straightforward | <1% | 18 | $392.00 |
| 36416 | <1% | 164 | $172.20 | |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | <1% | 13 | $136.20 |
| 99070 | <1% | 195 | $60.00 | |
| 91300 | <1% | 70 | $0.01 | |
| 91301 | 0% | 117 | $0.00 | |
| 91303 | 0% | 38 | $0.00 |
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.