Supplier
Southern Discount Drugs of Charleston INC
Southern Discount Drugs of Charleston INC was paid $14.51M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 17 billing codes. Its largest line is A4253, Blood glucose test or reagent strips for home blood glucose monitor, per 50 strips — 47% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSOUTHERN DISCOUNT DRUGS OF CHARLESTON INC
CHARLESTON, MS 38921
CHARLESTON, MS 38921
33aNPI1104800440assigned 11/30/2005
33bProvider typeDurable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies
28Total paid$14.51M
24GClaims528,856
24DCodes billed17
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies providers in Mississippi
Rank by total paid#1 of 173
Median peer was paid$16K
This provider vs. median916×
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.
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 | 70,477 | $2.02M | |
| 2019 | 79,731 | $2.30M | |
| 2020 | 79,664 | $2.07M | |
| 2021 | 79,348 | $2.09M | |
| 2022 | 94,135 | $2.17M | |
| 2023 | 77,288 | $2.11M | |
| 2024incomplete | 48,213 | $1.75M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A4253 | Blood glucose test or reagent strips for home blood glucose monitor, per 50 strips | 47% | 134,251 | 124,288 | $6.85M |
| A4215 | Needle, sterile, any size, each | 11% | 35,439 | 30,447 | $1.64M |
| A4259 | Lancets, per box of 100 | 10% | 130,302 | 120,841 | $1.46M |
| A5500 | For diabetics only, fitting (including follow-up), custom preparation and supply of off-the-shelf depth-inlay shoe manufactured to accommodate multi-density insert(s), per shoe | 9.2% | 22,651 | 15,186 | $1.33M |
| A4239 | Supply allowance for non-adjunctive, non-implanted continuous glucose monitor (cgm), includes all supplies and accessories, 1 month supply = 1 unit of service | 4.1% | 4,892 | 4,259 | $594K |
| E0607 | Home blood glucose monitor | 3.9% | 9,933 | 9,002 | $567K |
| A5514 | For diabetics only, multiple density insert, made by direct carving with cam technology from a rectified cad model created from a digitized scan of the patient, total contact with patient's foot, including arch, base layer minimum of 3/16 inch material of shore a 35 durometer (or higher), includes arch filler and other shaping material, custom fabricated, each | 3.6% | 13,031 | 7,247 | $518K |
| A4256 | Normal, low and high calibrator solution / chips | 3.1% | 75,910 | 68,462 | $444K |
| S8490 | Insulin syringes (100 syringes, any size) | 2.0% | 15,536 | 13,274 | $288K |
| A4206 | Syringe with needle, sterile, 1 cc or less, each | 2.0% | 13,344 | 12,869 | $284K |
| A5513 | For diabetics only, multiple density insert, custom molded from model of patient's foot, total contact with patient's foot, including arch, base layer minimum of 3/16 inch material of shore a 35 durometer (or higher), includes arch filler and other shaping material, custom fabricated, each | 1.9% | 7,992 | 6,476 | $278K |
| A4245 | Alcohol wipes, per box | <1% | 55,775 | 48,276 | $128K |
5 more codes
| E2103 | Non-adjunctive, non-implanted continuous glucose monitor or receiver | <1% | 548 | $69K |
| A4258 | Spring-powered device for lancet, each | <1% | 6,780 | $40K |
| A4250 | Urine test or reagent strips or tablets (100 tablets or strips) | <1% | 1,341 | $18K |
| K0553 | Supply allowance for therapeutic continuous glucose monitor (cgm), includes all supplies and accessories, 1 month supply = 1 unit of service | <1% | 63 | $6K |
| K0903 | For diabetics only, multiple density insert, made by direct carving with cam technology from a rectified cad model created from a digitized scan of the patient, total contact with patient's foot, including arch, base layer minimum of 3/16 inch material of shore a 35 durometer (or higher), includes arch filler and other shaping material, custom fabricated, each | 0% | 1,068 | $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 officialSALMON, ROBERT (PHARMACIST)