Merai, Parag

Merai, Parag was paid $40K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90833, Psychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient when performed with an E&M service (add-on) — 64% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMERAI, PARAG
AURORA, IL 60506

33aNPI1992905335assigned 07/24/2007

33bProvider typeChild & Adolescent Psychiatry Physician

28Total paid$40K

24GClaims1,308

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#53 of 80

Median peer was paid$86K

This provider vs. median0.5×

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	303	$6K
2019	624	$17K
2020	245	$9K
2021	96	$5K
2022	14	$1K
2023	12	$679.42
2024incomplete	14	$859.50

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
90833	Psychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient when performed with an E&M service (add-on)	64%	793	288	$26K
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	29%	475	115	$12K
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	7.0%	40	38	$3K

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.