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The Medical Center INC

The Medical Center INC was paid $1.18M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 38 billing codes. Its largest line is 99283, emergency room visit (moderate) — 40% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTHE MEDICAL CENTER INC
COLUMBUS, GA 31901
33aNPI1255401519assigned 11/08/2006
28Total paid$1.18M
24GClaims39,083
24DCodes billed38
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other General Acute Care Hospital providers in Georgia

Rank by total paid#10 of 34
Median peer was paid$23K
This provider vs. median51×

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.

Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$20K$40K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
20186,382$156K
20194,939$83K
20202,219$33K
20214,718$142K
20226,129$196K
20238,325$316K
2024incomplete6,371$250K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99283 Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity 40% 14,731 12,455 $476K
99282 Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity 31% 10,867 9,250 $360K
76818 6.2% 1,991 647 $73K
87651 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Streptococcus, group A, amplified probe 4.6% 1,513 1,423 $55K
76816 Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, follow-up 3.1% 1,387 837 $37K
99285 Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life 2.3% 119 105 $27K
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 2.0% 580 297 $24K
85025 Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count 1.7% 2,933 2,591 $20K
76805 Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, fetal and maternal evaluation 1.6% 696 667 $18K
76811 Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, fetal and maternal evaluation, detailed 1.5% 278 184 $18K
76819 Fetal biophysical profile; without non-stress testing 1.5% 584 304 $17K
99284 Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity 1.4% 274 241 $16K
26 more codes
80053 Comprehensive metabolic panel <1% 967 $9K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) <1% 342 $8K
U0003 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (dna or rna); severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), amplified probe technique, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r <1% 77 $4K
76801 <1% 104 $2K
99245 <1% 24 $2K
80048 Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) <1% 268 $2K
99211 Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity <1% 235 $1K
99281 Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, self-limited or minor <1% 38 $1K
76817 Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, transvaginal <1% 47 $1K
59025 Fetal non-stress test <1% 191 $836.16
87081 <1% 93 $788.58
93005 Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; tracing only, without interpretation and report <1% 51 $526.73
81001 <1% 127 $427.80
83655 <1% 16 $218.66
81003 <1% 86 $218.26
84484 <1% 13 $89.84
81025 <1% 38 $66.42
G9903 Patient screened for tobacco use and identified as a tobacco non-user 0% 31 $0.00
36415 Collection of venous blood by venipuncture 0% 135 $0.00
G8432 Depression screening not documented, reason not given 0% 32 $0.00
1036F 0% 31 $0.00
96374 Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; intravenous push, single or initial substance 0% 17 $0.00
0202U Oncology (prostate), multianalyte, gene expression profiling 0% 63 $0.00
G8938 Bmi is documented as being outside of normal parameters, follow-up plan is not documented, documentation the patient is not eligible 0% 31 $0.00
G8484 Influenza immunization was not administered, reason not given 0% 38 $0.00
G8427 Eligible clinician attests to documenting in the medical record they obtained, updated, or reviewed the patient's current medications 0% 35 $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 officialCROSS, ROBERT (VP, GOVERNMENT REIMBURSEMENT)
Same official

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