Lester E Cox Medical Centers

Lester E Cox Medical Centers was paid $359K by Medicaid between Jul 2018 and Nov 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 54% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoLESTER E COX MEDICAL CENTERS
SPRINGFIELD, MO 65807

33aNPI1154813244assigned 06/04/2018

33bProvider typeFamily Medicine Physician

28Total paid$359K

24GClaims11,233

24DCodes billed6

24AFirst – last monthJul 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in Missouri

Rank by total paid#73 of 911

Median peer was paid$16K

This provider vs. median23×

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 SHAMEL, BROCK 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
2018	351	$6K
2019	1,026	$21K
2020	1,187	$23K
2021	1,854	$39K
2022	2,977	$83K
2023	2,345	$112K
2024incomplete	1,493	$74K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	54%	4,213	2,068	$195K
99231	Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity	39%	6,612	2,741	$140K
99222	Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	5.7%	367	294	$21K
99223	Prolong inpt eval add15 m	<1%	13	13	$2K
99254		<1%	16	14	$2K
99221		<1%	12	12	$603.71

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 officialSHAMEL, BROCK (VICE PRESIDENT)

Same official

Other billing entities under SHAMEL, BROCK

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Provider	Location	Paid
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$9.19M
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$3.36M
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$2.44M
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$1.92M
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$1.85M
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Ozark, MO	$1.02M
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Brookline, MO	$1.00M
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$867K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$792K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$736K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$513K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$385K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$378K
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Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$361K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$360K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$289K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$278K
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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.