Physician
Forrest General Hospital
Forrest General Hospital was paid $850K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 37 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 43% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFORREST GENERAL HOSPITAL
HATTIESBURG, MS 39404
HATTIESBURG, MS 39404
33aNPI1053512087assigned 05/29/2007
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$850K
24GClaims90,465
24DCodes billed37
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Mississippi
Rank by total paid#17 of 139
Median peer was paid$26K
This provider vs. median33×
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
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 | 16,768 | $172K | |
| 2019 | 15,819 | $161K | |
| 2020 | 12,019 | $126K | |
| 2021 | 12,453 | $146K | |
| 2022 | 11,621 | $114K | |
| 2023 | 11,998 | $83K | |
| 2024incomplete | 9,787 | $49K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 43% | 11,302 | 10,701 | $362K |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | 24% | 64,604 | 54,043 | $204K |
| 93306 | Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete | 14% | 3,455 | 3,228 | $118K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 7.3% | 3,299 | 2,675 | $62K |
| 78452 | Myocardial perfusion imaging, tomographic (SPECT); multiple studies at rest and/or stress | 3.1% | 515 | 468 | $26K |
| 93303 | Transthoracic echocardiography for congenital cardiac anomalies, follow-up or limited study | 2.4% | 502 | 428 | $20K |
| 93000 | 2.0% | 1,380 | 1,342 | $17K | |
| 99309 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity | 1.0% | 371 | 355 | $9K |
| 99204 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity | <1% | 423 | 348 | $7K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | <1% | 335 | 119 | $6K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 409 | 380 | $4K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | <1% | 97 | 33 | $4K |
25 more codes
| 99407 | <1% | 190 | $2K | |
| 99443 | <1% | 112 | $2K | |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | <1% | 67 | $1K |
| 93314 | <1% | 12 | $1K | |
| 99391 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, infant (under 1 year) | <1% | 17 | $857.76 |
| 99211 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity | <1% | 161 | $662.32 |
| 85610 | <1% | 147 | $599.58 | |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine) | <1% | 20 | $404.11 |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 158 | $394.65 |
| 93298 | <1% | 102 | $314.98 | |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | <1% | 27 | $312.11 |
| 93320 | <1% | 12 | $232.21 | |
| G2211 | Visit complexity inherent to evaluation and management associated with medical care services that serve as the continuing focal point for all needed health care services and/or with medical care services that are part of ongoing care related to a patient's single, serious condition or a complex condition. (add-on code, list separately in addition to office/outpatient evaluation and management visit, new or established) | <1% | 1,346 | $206.63 |
| 93016 | <1% | 320 | $205.49 | |
| 93018 | <1% | 333 | $175.64 | |
| 93325 | <1% | 12 | $101.48 | |
| 3077F | 0% | 186 | $0.00 | |
| 3078F | 0% | 241 | $0.00 | |
| 3074F | 0% | 83 | $0.00 | |
| 3079F | 0% | 78 | $0.00 | |
| 93227 | 0% | 21 | $0.00 | |
| 3080F | 0% | 43 | $0.00 | |
| 3048F | 0% | 37 | $0.00 | |
| 3008F | 0% | 25 | $0.00 | |
| 3075F | 0% | 23 | $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)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Forrest County General Hospital | Hattiesburg, MS | $81.63M |
| Forrest County General Hospital | Picayune, MS | $21.66M |
| Forrest County General Hospital | Columbia, MS | $9.51M |
| Walthall General Hospital | Tylertown, MS | $6.16M |
| Forrest County General Hospital | Prentiss, MS | $3.80M |
| Forrest County General Hospital | Poplarville, MS | $3.74M |
| Forrest County General Hospital | Poplarville, MS | $2.80M |
| Forrest County General Hospital | Picayune, MS | $2.76M |
| Forrest County General Hospital | Richton, MS | $1.58M |
| Forrest County General Hospital | Richton, MS | $1.36M |
| Forrest County General Hospital | Columbia, MS | $1.03M |
| Walthall General Hospital | Tylertown, MS | $953K |
| Forrest County General Hospital | Poplarville, MS | $253K |
| FGH Physician Billing | Hattiesburg, MS | $224K |
| Forrest County General Hospital | Prentiss, MS | $204K |
| Forrest County General Hospital | Picayune, MS | $65K |
| FGH Trauma Surgery Clinic | Hattiesburg, MS | $47K |
| Forrest County General Hospital | Poplarville, MS | $22K |
| Forrest County General Hospital | Richton, MS | $18K |
| Walthall General Hospital | Tylertown, MS | $3K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.