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Cherokee Medical Center

Cherokee Medical Center was paid $527K by Medicaid between Oct 2019 and Dec 2024, across 15 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 55% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCHEROKEE MEDICAL CENTER
GAFFNEY, SC 29340
33aNPI1265083836assigned 09/25/2019
28Total paid$527K
24GClaims24,114
24DCodes billed15
24AFirst – last monthOct 2019 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician providers in South Carolina

Rank by total paid#39 of 206
Median peer was paid$10K
This provider vs. median53×

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 MEINKE, KENNETH controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$10K$20K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2019865$22K
20205,550$156K
20216,756$184K
20225,049$102K
20233,130$40K
2024incomplete2,764$23K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 55% 4,777 3,707 $292K
J1050 Injection, medroxyprogesterone acetate, 1 mg 16% 1,075 1,060 $85K
99212 Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward 7.3% 1,020 856 $38K
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 6.4% 375 370 $34K
81003 4.2% 10,693 7,889 $22K
81025 2.2% 1,634 1,566 $12K
99395 Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, 18-39 years 1.9% 104 104 $10K
59025 Fetal non-stress test 1.5% 211 125 $8K
76817 Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, transvaginal 1.4% 91 87 $8K
36415 Collection of venous blood by venipuncture 1.1% 2,053 1,832 $6K
87210 <1% 632 617 $5K
59430 <1% 24 24 $4K
3 more codes
96372 Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular <1% 940 $4K
85018 <1% 471 $1K
82950 <1% 14 $55.70

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 officialMEINKE, KENNETH (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER)
Parent organizationSPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES DISTRICT, INC.
Same official

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