Rural Health Care, INC.
Rural Health Care, INC. was paid $65K by Medicaid between Feb 2018 and Aug 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 93% of everything it billed.
HIGHMORE, SD 57345
Next to other Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) providers in South Dakota
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.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 188 | $17K | |
| 2019 | 160 | $14K | |
| 2020 | 58 | $5K | |
| 2021 | 54 | $7K | |
| 2022 | 25 | $3K | |
| 2023 | 194 | $8K | |
| 2024incomplete | 222 | $13K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 93% | 615 | 472 | $61K |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | 2.9% | 28 | 25 | $2K |
| 90471 | Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine | 2.4% | 13 | 13 | $2K |
| W0037 | 1.0% | 228 | 228 | $684.00 | |
| 90686 | <1% | 17 | 15 | $147.86 |
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.
Who's on the registration
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Rural Health Care, INC | Worthington, MN | $15.92M |
| Rural Health Care, INC | Marshall, MN | $10.08M |
| Rural Health Care, INC | Mitchell, SD | $4.41M |
| Rural Health Care, INC | Brookings, SD | $2.11M |
| Rural Health Care, INC | Windom, MN | $1.60M |
| Rural Health Care, INC. | Chamberlain, SD | $233K |
| Rural Health Care, INC. | Fulda, MN | $229K |
| Rural Health Care, INC. | Fort Pierre, SD | $156K |
| Rural Health Care, INC. | Murdo, SD | $81K |
| Rural Health Care, INC | Presho, SD | $24K |
| Rural Health Care, INC | Onida, SD | $225.00 |
| Rural Health Care, INC | Kennebec, SD | $156.00 |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.