Physician
Thai, Tam
Thai, Tam was paid $1.37M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 48% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTHAI, TAM
PALOS HEIGHTS, IL 60463
PALOS HEIGHTS, IL 60463
33aNPI1972503563assigned 07/26/2005
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$1.37M
24GClaims22,596
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#5 of 1,980
Median peer was paid$150K
This provider vs. median9.1×
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 | 1,239 | $52K | |
| 2019 | 1,769 | $75K | |
| 2020 | 4,386 | $199K | |
| 2021 | 3,704 | $220K | |
| 2022 | 3,784 | $263K | |
| 2023 | 3,999 | $274K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,715 | $292K |
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 | 48% | 7,990 | 7,072 | $657K |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 37% | 7,695 | 6,782 | $503K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 14% | 5,475 | 4,906 | $198K |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | <1% | 79 | 71 | $12K |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | <1% | 223 | 220 | $2K |
| 99282 | Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity | <1% | 24 | 24 | $585.86 |
| 36556 | <1% | 16 | 14 | $516.13 | |
| 31500 | <1% | 15 | 14 | $425.72 | |
| 93042 | <1% | 36 | 26 | $92.40 | |
| 99053 | <1% | 1,043 | 717 | $18.60 |
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.