Clinic
Cherokee Health Systems
Cherokee Health Systems was paid $38K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is G0467, community health center visit, returning patient — 45% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHEROKEE HEALTH SYSTEMS
NEWPORT, TN 37821
NEWPORT, TN 37821
33aNPI1124418819assigned 02/02/2015
33bProvider typeFederally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
28Total paid$38K
24GClaims3,501
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) providers in Tennessee
Rank by total paid#54 of 90
Median peer was paid$87K
This provider vs. median0.4×
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 KHATRI, PARINDA controls 17+ 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 | 205 | $2K | |
| 2019 | 498 | $9K | |
| 2020 | 325 | $5K | |
| 2021 | 403 | $7K | |
| 2022 | 741 | $5K | |
| 2023 | 842 | $5K | |
| 2024incomplete | 487 | $5K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G0467 | Community health center visit, returning patientFederally qualified health center (fqhc) visit, established patient; a medically-necessary, face-to-face encounter (one-on-one) between an established patient and a fqhc practitioner during which time one or more fqhc services are rendered and includes a typical bundle of medicare-covered services that would be furnished per diem to a patient receiving a fqhc visit | 45% | 1,193 | 958 | $17K |
| 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 | 18% | 384 | 319 | $7K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 13% | 523 | 436 | $5K |
| G0511 | Rural health clinic or federally qualified health center (rhc or fqhc) only, general care management, 20 minutes or more of clinical staff time for chronic care management services or behavioral health integration services directed by an rhc or fqhc practitioner (physician, np, pa, or cnm), per calendar month | 9.1% | 839 | 771 | $3K |
| G2025 | Payment for a telehealth distant site service furnished by a rural health clinic (rhc) or federally qualified health center (fqhc) only | 8.5% | 270 | 214 | $3K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 5.3% | 35 | 25 | $2K |
| G0470 | Federally qualified health center (fqhc) visit, mental health, established patient; a medically-necessary, face-to-face mental health encounter (one-on-one) between an established patient and a fqhc practitioner during which time one or more fqhc services are rendered and includes a typical bundle of medicare-covered services that would be furnished per diem to a patient receiving a mental health visit | 1.1% | 31 | 24 | $402.16 |
| 99442 | <1% | 14 | 13 | $56.74 | |
| G0071 | Payment for communication technology-based services for 5 minutes or more of a virtual (non-face-to-face) communication between an rural health clinic (rhc) or federally qualified health center (fqhc) practitioner and rhc or fqhc patient, or 5 minutes or more of remote evaluation of recorded video and/or images by an rhc or fqhc practitioner, occurring in lieu of an office visit; rhc or fqhc only | <1% | 15 | 13 | $24.76 |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 166 | 129 | $22.22 |
| 3008F | 0% | 31 | 26 | $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 officialKHATRI, PARINDA (CEO)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Cherokee Health Systems | Talbott, TN | $97.62M |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Knoxville, TN | $4.66M |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Knoxville, TN | $591K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Alcoa, TN | $375K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Morristown, TN | $264K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Knoxville, TN | $238K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Chattanooga, TN | $196K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Seymour, TN | $196K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | New Tazewell, TN | $185K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Blaine, TN | $166K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Lenoir City, TN | $140K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Maynardville, TN | $133K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Clinton, TN | $128K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Knoxville, TN | $123K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Englewood, TN | $62K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Washburn, TN | $25K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Knoxville, TN | $1K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.