Clinic
Catawba Valley Medical Group INC
Catawba Valley Medical Group INC was paid $277K by Medicaid between Jan 2020 and Dec 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 41% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCATAWBA VALLEY MEDICAL GROUP INC
HICKORY, NC 28602
HICKORY, NC 28602
33aNPI1083258115assigned 11/01/2019
33bProvider typePodiatric Clinic/Center
28Total paid$277K
24GClaims8,430
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJan 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Podiatric Clinic/Center providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#1 of 5
Median peer was paid$52K
This provider vs. median5.3×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 713 | $23K | |
| 2021 | 1,744 | $57K | |
| 2022 | 1,915 | $64K | |
| 2023 | 2,048 | $62K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,010 | $71K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 41% | 3,889 | 3,050 | $113K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 32% | 1,720 | 1,377 | $89K |
| 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 | 21% | 1,416 | 1,044 | $59K |
| 11042 | Debridement, subcutaneous tissue (includes epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous tissue); first 20 sq cm | 3.2% | 430 | 163 | $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% | 29 | 25 | $2K |
| 11721 | <1% | 250 | 184 | $2K | |
| 20550 | <1% | 49 | 27 | $1K | |
| J0702 | Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg | <1% | 505 | 325 | $984.02 |
| 73630 | <1% | 34 | 24 | $350.33 | |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 42 | 38 | $35.10 |
| 99000 | 0% | 66 | 54 | $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 (VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE)
Parent organizationCATAWBA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Catawba Valley Medical Center | Hickory, NC | $17.37M |
| Catawba Valley Medical Center | Hickory, NC | $998K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Newton, NC | $892K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, Ing | Hickory, NC | $821K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Conover, NC | $599K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Sherrills Ford, NC | $555K |
| 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 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 |
| Catawba Valley Medical Center | Hickory, NC | $177K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Hickory, NC | $173K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Maiden, NC | $166K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Hickory, NC | $138K |
| 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.