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#7 of 11K

99284

Emergency dept visit, high complexity

Emergency dept visit, high complexity is the #7 most-billed Medicaid procedure code, with $20.15B in payments across 170.7M claims from 2018–2024. The national median cost per claim is $69.51. Costs vary widely — the 90th percentile is $166.96 per claim, 2.4× the median.

Total Paid

$20.15B

1.84% of all spending

Total Claims

170.7M

Providers

21K

Avg Cost/Claim

$118

National Cost Distribution

How much do providers bill per claim for 99284? Based on 21K providers billing this code nationally.

Median

$69.51

Average

$91.17

Std Dev

$90.28

Max

$1,834.24

Percentile Distribution (Cost per Claim)

p10
$35.99
p25
$51.07
Median
$69.51
p75
$93.87
p90
$166.96
p95
$231.46
p99
$465.29

50% of providers bill between $51.07 and $93.87 per claim for this code.

90% bill between $35.99 and $166.96.

Top 1% bill above $465.29.

About This Procedure

HCPCS code 99284 (Emergency dept visit, high complexity) was billed by 21K providers across 170.7M claims, totaling $20.15B in Medicaid payments from 2018–2024. This code was used for 154.9M unique beneficiaries.

Risk Assessment

Billing Statistics

Median Cost/Claim

$69.51

Providers Billing

21K

National Spending

$20.15B

Avg/Median Ratio

1.31×

Normal distribution

Top Providers Billing This Code

Ranked by total Medicaid payments for 99284

#ProviderTotal Paid
1Yale New Haven Hospital

New Haven, CT · General Acute Care Hospital

$95.2M
2Southeastern Emergency Physicians Llc

Maysville, KY · Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine

$84.5M
3Phoenix Children's Hospital

Phoenix, AZ · General Acute Care Hospital Children

$82.4M
4Virtua - West Jersey Health System Inc.

Voorhees, NJ · General Acute Care Hospital

$74.9M
5University Of Kentucky

Lexington, KY · General Acute Care Hospital

$71.0M
6Cook Children's Medical Center

Fort Worth, TX · General Acute Care Hospital Children

$70.1M
7Kennedy University Hospital Inc.

Stratford, NJ · General Acute Care Hospital

$67.5M
8Wakemed

Raleigh, NC · General Acute Care Hospital

$65.6M
9Mcallen Hospitals L P

Edinburg, TX · General Acute Care Hospital

$62.9M
10St Josephs University Medical Center Inc.

Paterson, NJ · General Acute Care Hospital

$59.3M
11Scottish Rite Children's Medical Center

Atlanta, GA · Pediatrics Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

$56.4M
12Antelope Valley Health Care District

Lancaster, CA · General Acute Care Hospital

$55.2M
13Norton Hospitals Inc

Louisville, KY · General Acute Care Hospital

$53.8M
14Bridgeport Hospital

Bridgeport, CT · General Acute Care Hospital

$53.6M
15Hennepin Healthcare System Inc

Minneapolis, MN · General Acute Care Hospital

$53.3M
16Texas Children's Hospital

Houston, TX · General Acute Care Hospital Children

$52.7M
17Rwjbh Emergency Medicine Associates, Llc

Somerset, NJ · Nurse Practitioner, Primary Care

$52.2M
18Inspira Medical Centers Inc.

Vineland, NJ · General Acute Care Hospital

$51.6M
19North Shore-lij Medical Pc

Great Neck, NY · Urology

$51.0M
20Ochsner Clinic Foundation

New Orleans, LA · General Acute Care Hospital

$48.4M

Showing top 20 of 21K providers billing this code