Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC

Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC was paid $173K by Medicaid between Feb 2018 and Dec 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99199, Unlisted special service, procedure or report — 92% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCATAWBA VALLEY MEDICAL GROUP, INC
HICKORY, NC 28602

33aNPI1083039176assigned 02/26/2014

33bProvider typeFamily Medicine Physician

28Total paid$173K

24GClaims23,872

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthFeb 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in North Carolina

Rank by total paid#446 of 960

Median peer was paid$135K

This provider vs. median1.3×

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 GALLAGHER, PAMELA 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	14	$808.54
2019	13	$988.60
2020	13	$693.87
2021	1,243	$10K
2022	4,055	$33K
2023	6,710	$45K
2024incomplete	11,824	$83K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99199	Unlisted special service, procedure or report	92%	23,612	11,823	$159K
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	7.8%	221	182	$13K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	<1%	13	13	$693.87
36415	Collection of venous blood by venipuncture	<1%	12	12	$21.60
99000		0%	14	13	$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 officialGALLAGHER, PAMELA (VP OF FINANCE)

Parent organizationCATAWBA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER

Same official

Other billing entities under GALLAGHER, PAMELA

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Provider	Location	Paid
Catawba Valley Medical Center	Hickory, NC	$17.37M
Catawba Valley Medical Center	Hickory, NC	$998K
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Catawba Valley Medical Group INC	Hickory, NC	$509K
Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC	Hickory, NC	$481K
Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC	Hickory, NC	$477K
Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC	Hickory, NC	$423K
Catawba Valley Medical Group INC	Taylorsville, NC	$329K
Catawba Valley Medical Group INC	Hickory, NC	$277K
Catawba Valley Medical Center	Hickory, NC	$247K
Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC	Conover, NC	$218K
Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC	Taylorsville, NC	$196K
Catawba Valley Medical Center	Hickory, NC	$179K
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Catawba Valley Medical Center	Hickory, NC	$130K

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