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Centracare Health - Benson LLC

Centracare Health - Benson LLC was paid $61K by Medicaid between Jan 2023 and Nov 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is 85025, Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count — 37% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCENTRACARE HEALTH - BENSON LLC
BENSON, MN 56215
33aNPI1326757154assigned 11/21/2022
33bProvider typeCritical Access Hospital
28Total paid$61K
24GClaims1,403
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJan 2023 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Critical Access Hospital providers in Minnesota

Rank by total paid#62 of 68
Median peer was paid$798K
This provider vs. median0.1×

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

Paid by month

$0$5.0K$10K$15K2018201920202021202220232024
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
20231,190$48K
2024incomplete213$14K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
85025 Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count 37% 576 523 $23K
80048 Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) 24% 341 314 $15K
99283 Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity 22% 72 54 $13K
80053 Comprehensive metabolic panel 7.2% 69 64 $4K
36415 Collection of venous blood by venipuncture 4.1% 238 197 $3K
87635 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe 1.4% 16 16 $854.96
83036 Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) 1.2% 25 24 $710.01
87502 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid, influenza virus, for multiple types or subtypes, includes all targets 1.1% 12 12 $645.17
86140 1.0% 25 24 $624.37
84443 Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) <1% 14 13 $541.34
85027 <1% 15 13 $540.83

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 officialBLAIR, MICHAEL (CFO)
Same official

Other billing entities under BLAIR, MICHAEL

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ProviderLocationPaid
ST. Cloud HospitalSaint Cloud, MN$53.43M
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Centracare ClinicSt Cloud, MN$19.28M
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Carris Health LLCWillmar, MN$12.39M
Centracare Health SystemsSaint Cloud, MN$9.41M
Centracare Health SystemSaint Cloud, MN$9.06M
Carris Health LLCWillmar, MN$8.27M
Centracare ClinicSaint Cloud, MN$6.96M
Centracare Health System - Long PrairieLong Prairie, MN$6.86M
Centracare Health System-Nr LLCMonticello, MN$6.73M
Centracare ClinicSartell, MN$6.11M
ST. Cloud HospitalSaint Cloud, MN$5.16M
Carris Health - Redwood LLCRedwood Falls, MN$4.74M
ST. Cloud HospitalSt Cloud, MN$4.44M
Centracare Health System - Sauk CentreSauk Centre, MN$4.19M
Centracare Health System - MelroseMelrose, MN$4.05M
Centracare ClinicSaint Cloud, MN$3.58M
Centracare ClinicSaint Cloud, MN$2.83M
Carris Health, LLCWillmar, MN$2.82M

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