Multicare Health System

Multicare Health System was paid $1.10M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 99239, Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes — 32% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMULTICARE HEALTH SYSTEM
TACOMA, WA 98405

33aNPI1134176647assigned 05/28/2006

33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician

28Total paid$1.10M

24GClaims15,116

24DCodes billed7

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Washington

Rank by total paid#16 of 155

Median peer was paid$14K

This provider vs. median76×

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 SCHMITZ, VINCENT controls 16+ 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	296	$18K
2019	2,066	$124K
2020	1,461	$88K
2021	1,816	$118K
2022	2,752	$201K
2023	2,851	$223K
2024incomplete	3,874	$329K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99239	Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes	32%	4,402	4,345	$347K
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	30%	4,314	2,531	$326K
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	19%	4,112	2,552	$211K
99223	Prolong inpt eval add15 m	9.7%	788	780	$107K
99222	Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	6.5%	750	745	$72K
99238	Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less	3.4%	734	724	$37K
99231	Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity	<1%	16	13	$415.68

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 officialSCHMITZ, VINCENT (CFO)

Same official

Other billing entities under SCHMITZ, VINCENT

Full network →

Provider	Location	Paid
Multicare Health System	Tacoma, WA	$29.35M
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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.