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Catawba Valley Medical Center

Catawba Valley Medical Center was paid $72K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 65% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCATAWBA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER
HICKORY, NC 28601
33aNPI1306899950assigned 05/17/2006
33bProvider typeGynecology Physician
28Total paid$72K
24GClaims6,341
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Gynecology Physician providers in North Carolina

Rank by total paid#6 of 16
Median peer was paid$40K
This provider vs. median1.8×

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

Paid by month

$0$2.0K$4.0K$6.0K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2018695$7K
2019637$7K
2020392$4K
2021651$8K
2022893$5K
2023843$5K
2024incomplete2,230$36K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
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 65% 804 701 $47K
99199 Unlisted special service, procedure or report 21% 2,371 1,193 $15K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 8.4% 170 146 $6K
36415 Collection of venous blood by venipuncture 4.2% 1,664 1,437 $3K
90834 Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient 1.2% 15 12 $880.44
90471 Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine <1% 12 12 $159.60
99000 <1% 1,305 1,070 $51.90

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 officialGALLAGHER, PAMELA (VP OF FINANCE)
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