Physician
Luger, Gerald
Luger, Gerald was paid $48K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jan 2022, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 99291, Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes — 98% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLUGER, GERALD
MELROSE PARK, IL 60160
MELROSE PARK, IL 60160
33aNPI1992792253assigned 10/03/2005
33bProvider typeCritical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician
28Total paid$48K
24GClaims643
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jan 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#90 of 189
Median peer was paid$43K
This provider vs. median1.1×
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 | 286 | $15K | |
| 2019 | 65 | $4K | |
| 2020 | 170 | $16K | |
| 2021 | 91 | $11K | |
| 2022 | 31 | $2K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 98% | 598 | 330 | $48K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 1.7% | 45 | 29 | $806.15 |
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.