Thomas, Melvin

Thomas, Melvin was paid $360K by Medicaid between Aug 2019 and Nov 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 69% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTHOMAS, MELVIN
JOLIET, IL 60435

33aNPI1962852327assigned 06/16/2016

33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician

28Total paid$360K

24GClaims5,053

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthAug 2019 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#320 of 1,980

Median peer was paid$150K

This provider vs. median2.4×

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
2019	644	$28K
2020	1,485	$84K
2021	757	$62K
2022	703	$56K
2023	744	$62K
2024incomplete	720	$67K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99285	Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life	69%	2,895	2,575	$247K
99284	Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity	23%	1,404	1,284	$84K
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	6.5%	714	607	$24K
99291	Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes	1.4%	40	36	$5K

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.