Physician
Cherokee Medical Center
Cherokee Medical Center was paid $779K by Medicaid between Oct 2019 and Dec 2024, across 13 billing codes. Its largest line is 87636, Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus types A and B — 44% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHEROKEE MEDICAL CENTER
GAFFNEY, SC 29341
GAFFNEY, SC 29341
33aNPI1285275305assigned 09/30/2019
33bProvider typeFamily Medicine Physician
28Total paid$779K
24GClaims20,468
24DCodes billed13
24AFirst – last monthOct 2019 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in South Carolina
Rank by total paid#50 of 696
Median peer was paid$14K
This provider vs. median54×
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
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1,301 | $58K | |
| 2020 | 2,506 | $125K | |
| 2021 | 2,591 | $34K | |
| 2022 | 3,169 | $44K | |
| 2023 | 5,050 | $237K | |
| 2024incomplete | 5,851 | $281K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87636 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus types A and B | 44% | 2,934 | 2,859 | $346K |
| 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 | 19% | 2,313 | 2,184 | $150K |
| 87880 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A | 15% | 9,709 | 9,355 | $115K |
| 87428 | 12% | 1,818 | 1,770 | $95K | |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 4.3% | 588 | 555 | $33K |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | 3.9% | 2,163 | 1,116 | $30K |
| U0002 | 2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc | <1% | 97 | 95 | $5K |
| 81001 | <1% | 606 | 587 | $2K | |
| 87807 | <1% | 113 | 105 | $1K | |
| 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% | 12 | 12 | $942.00 |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | <1% | 41 | 40 | $290.26 |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 61 | 58 | $131.08 |
1 more codes
| 86308 | <1% | 13 | $51.71 |
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.
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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.