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Forrest County General Hospital

Forrest County General Hospital was paid $253K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 99283, emergency room visit (moderate) — 71% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFORREST COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL
POPLARVILLE, MS 39470
33aNPI1003026717assigned 05/23/2007
33bProvider typeCritical Access Hospital
28Total paid$253K
24GClaims5,594
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Critical Access Hospital providers in Mississippi

Rank by total paid#29 of 32
Median peer was paid$3.94M
This provider vs. median0.1×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official HESTER, BEN controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$5.0K$10K$15K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
2018508$21K
2019602$38K
2020814$45K
2021978$47K
20221,129$48K
20231,301$53K
2024incomplete262$513.77
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99283 Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity 71% 4,314 4,033 $179K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 12% 183 179 $30K
99442 5.9% 232 231 $15K
99284 Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity 5.7% 218 187 $14K
99282 Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity 5.3% 438 419 $13K
93010 Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only <1% 115 106 $573.78
99441 <1% 26 26 $571.13
80305 <1% 37 37 $241.84
G8431 Screening for depression is documented as being positive and a follow-up plan is documented 0% 31 31 $0.00

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.

From NPPES

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialHESTER, BEN (CFO)
Parent organizationFORREST COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL
Same official

Other billing entities under HESTER, BEN

Full network →
ProviderLocationPaid
Forrest County General HospitalHattiesburg, MS$81.63M
Forrest County General HospitalPicayune, MS$21.66M
Forrest County General HospitalColumbia, MS$9.51M
Walthall General HospitalTylertown, MS$6.16M
Forrest County General HospitalPrentiss, MS$3.80M
Forrest County General HospitalPoplarville, MS$3.74M
Forrest County General HospitalPoplarville, MS$2.80M
Forrest County General HospitalPicayune, MS$2.76M
Forrest County General HospitalRichton, MS$1.58M
Forrest County General HospitalRichton, MS$1.36M
Forrest County General HospitalColumbia, MS$1.03M
Walthall General HospitalTylertown, MS$953K
Forrest General HospitalHattiesburg, MS$850K
FGH Physician BillingHattiesburg, MS$224K
Forrest County General HospitalPrentiss, MS$204K
Forrest County General HospitalPicayune, MS$65K
FGH Trauma Surgery ClinicHattiesburg, MS$47K
Forrest County General HospitalPoplarville, MS$22K
Forrest County General HospitalRichton, MS$18K
Walthall General HospitalTylertown, MS$3K

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.