Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC

Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC was paid $738K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 57% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPALMETTO PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS, LLC
SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483

33aNPI1265690382assigned 05/27/2008

33bProvider typeFamily Medicine Physician

28Total paid$738K

24GClaims14,456

24DCodes billed10

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in South Carolina

Rank by total paid#53 of 696

Median peer was paid$14K

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official ARNAU, THOMAS 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	2,742	$144K
2019	2,253	$123K
2020	2,217	$126K
2021	2,331	$122K
2022	2,473	$110K
2023	1,559	$72K
2024incomplete	881	$42K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
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	57%	5,693	5,200	$419K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	41%	5,582	5,055	$302K
87502	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid, influenza virus, for multiple types or subtypes, includes all targets	<1%	60	56	$6K
36415	Collection of venous blood by venipuncture	<1%	2,585	2,365	$5K
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%	30	25	$4K
90460	Immunization administration through 18 years of age via any route, first or only component	<1%	69	63	$1K
81003		<1%	394	363	$682.33
90674		<1%	15	13	$169.62
90471	Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine	<1%	16	14	$114.89
96372	Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular	<1%	12	12	$46.10

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 officialARNAU, THOMAS (PRESIDENT)

Same official

Other billing entities under ARNAU, THOMAS

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Provider	Location	Paid
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	N Charleston, SC	$1.84M
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Summerville, SC	$1.54M
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	N Charleston, SC	$1.08M
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Hampton, SC	$1.06M
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Moncks Corner, SC	$891K
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	N Charleston, SC	$563K
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Charleston, SC	$549K
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Charleston, SC	$515K
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Ladson, SC	$457K
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Bonneau, SC	$411K
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Summerville, SC	$395K
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Saint Stephen, SC	$357K
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Summerville, SC	$332K
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Summerville, SC	$279K
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Saint George, SC	$178K
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians,llc	Summerville, SC	$156K
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Summerville, SC	$126K
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Daniel Island, SC	$118K
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Goose Creek, SC	$63K
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC	Ladson, SC	$54K

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