Lester E Cox Medical Centers

Lester E Cox Medical Centers was paid $385K by Medicaid between Jan 2021 and Sep 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99480, Subsequent intensive care, per day, low birth weight infant — 64% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoLESTER E COX MEDICAL CENTERS
SPRINGFIELD, MO 65807

33aNPI1316013246assigned 11/24/2006

33bProvider typePediatrics Physician

28Total paid$385K

24GClaims2,084

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2021 – Sep 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Pediatrics Physician providers in Missouri

Rank by total paid#92 of 992

Median peer was paid$40K

This provider vs. median9.5×

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 SHAMEL, BROCK 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
2021	298	$33K
2022	178	$32K
2023	779	$140K
2024incomplete	829	$180K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99480	Subsequent intensive care, per day, low birth weight infant	64%	1,736	537	$248K
99469	Subsequent inpatient neonatal critical care, per day, 28 days or younger	34%	298	103	$130K
99479	Subsequent intensive care, per day, very low birth weight infant	1.9%	50	24	$7K

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 officialSHAMEL, BROCK (VICE PRESIDENT)

Same official

Other billing entities under SHAMEL, BROCK

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Provider	Location	Paid
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$9.19M
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$3.36M
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$2.44M
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$1.92M
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$1.85M
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Ozark, MO	$1.02M
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Brookline, MO	$1.00M
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$867K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$792K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$736K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$513K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$378K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Nixa, MO	$362K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$361K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$360K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$359K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$289K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$278K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Lebanon, MO	$272K
Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Harrison, AR	$146K

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