Mercy Clinic Children's Heart Center, LLC

Mercy Clinic Children's Heart Center, LLC was paid $1.00M by Medicaid between Nov 2019 and Nov 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 93303, Transthoracic echocardiography for congenital cardiac anomalies, follow-up or limited study — 32% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMERCY CLINIC CHILDREN'S HEART CENTER, LLC
ST LOUIS, MO 63141

33aNPI1144399338assigned 11/06/2006

33bProvider typePediatric Cardiology Physician

28Total paid$1.00M

24GClaims23,527

24DCodes billed9

24AFirst – last monthNov 2019 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Pediatric Cardiology Physician providers in Missouri

Rank by total paid#1 of 35

Median peer was paid$27K

This provider vs. median38×

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 DUNGER, KERRY 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
2019	32	$122.32
2020	1,744	$60K
2021	4,475	$149K
2022	5,458	$203K
2023	6,308	$331K
2024incomplete	5,510	$260K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
93303	Transthoracic echocardiography for congenital cardiac anomalies, follow-up or limited study	32%	4,442	3,951	$322K
99215	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis	28%	1,938	1,867	$285K
99205	Prolong outpt/office vis	16%	759	749	$157K
93320		11%	4,399	3,910	$115K
93306	Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete	4.8%	688	673	$49K
93010	Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only	4.5%	6,063	5,791	$45K
93325		2.5%	5,197	4,554	$25K
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	29	$5K
99244	Office or other outpatient consultation, moderate to high complexity	<1%	12	12	$2K

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 officialDUNGER, KERRY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - FINANCE)

Parent organizationMERCY CLINIC EAST COMMUNITIES

Same official

Other billing entities under DUNGER, KERRY

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