Physician
Forrest County General Hospital
Forrest County General Hospital was paid $1.53M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 43% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFORREST COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL
HATTIESBURG, MS 39402
HATTIESBURG, MS 39402
33aNPI1275710212assigned 01/22/2008
33bProvider typeChild & Adolescent Psychiatry Physician
28Total paid$1.53M
24GClaims31,581
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Physician providers in Mississippi
Rank by total paid#2 of 6
Median peer was paid$77K
This provider vs. median20×
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
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 | 7,257 | $346K | |
| 2019 | 5,978 | $321K | |
| 2020 | 5,671 | $290K | |
| 2021 | 4,222 | $212K | |
| 2022 | 4,100 | $178K | |
| 2023 | 2,820 | $114K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,533 | $71K |
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 | 43% | 16,235 | 8,258 | $655K |
| 90792 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | 36% | 5,821 | 5,259 | $551K |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | 10% | 3,516 | 3,119 | $155K |
| 99231 | Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity | 7.3% | 4,756 | 2,869 | $113K |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | 3.2% | 1,036 | 869 | $49K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | <1% | 77 | 53 | $4K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | <1% | 31 | 26 | $3K |
| 99221 | <1% | 38 | 36 | $2K | |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | <1% | 24 | 13 | $828.69 |
| 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 | <1% | 33 | 25 | $777.46 |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | <1% | 14 | 14 | $367.70 |
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 officialSANFORD, DEBBIE (VP OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH)