Hospital
Union Hospital of Cecil County
Union Hospital of Cecil County was paid $1.67M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 63 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 35% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoUNION HOSPITAL OF CECIL COUNTY
ELKTON, MD 21921
ELKTON, MD 21921
33aNPI1376523357assigned 01/18/2006
33bProvider typeGeneral Acute Care Hospital
28Total paid$1.67M
24GClaims56,784
24DCodes billed63
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other General Acute Care Hospital providers in Maryland
Rank by total paid#24 of 69
Median peer was paid$870K
This provider vs. median1.9×
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 RIESEN, JUDY controls 19+ 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 12,320 | $66K | |
| 2019 | 12,499 | $265K | |
| 2020 | 8,566 | $481K | |
| 2021 | 8,759 | $424K | |
| 2022 | 6,888 | $229K | |
| 2023 | 4,741 | $143K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,011 | $63K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 35% | 4,657 | 4,060 | $587K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 18% | 3,672 | 3,253 | $305K |
| G0378 | Hospital observation service, per hour | 17% | 443 | 389 | $291K |
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 15% | 1,674 | 1,477 | $246K |
| 93005 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; tracing only, without interpretation and report | 3.0% | 4,864 | 4,182 | $50K |
| 99282 | Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity | 2.9% | 881 | 794 | $49K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 1.4% | 8,811 | 7,240 | $23K |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | 1.0% | 5,702 | 4,441 | $17K |
| 71046 | Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views | <1% | 1,864 | 1,752 | $16K |
| 74177 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; with contrast material | <1% | 405 | 379 | $14K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | <1% | 3,450 | 2,985 | $10K |
| 70450 | Computed tomography, head or brain; without contrast material | <1% | 988 | 892 | $7K |
51 more codes
| 74176 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; without contrast material | <1% | 314 | $7K |
| 84484 | <1% | 3,229 | $6K | |
| G0463 | Hospital outpatient clinic visit for assessment and management of a patient | <1% | 235 | $6K |
| 71045 | Radiologic examination, chest; single view | <1% | 1,410 | $4K |
| 81001 | <1% | 2,073 | $4K | |
| 71250 | <1% | 67 | $3K | |
| 87635 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe | <1% | 57 | $3K |
| 99281 | Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, self-limited or minor | <1% | 1,004 | $3K |
| 84703 | <1% | 367 | $3K | |
| 93306 | Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete | <1% | 120 | $2K |
| 93971 | <1% | 13 | $2K | |
| 83690 | <1% | 938 | $2K | |
| 80307 | Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay | <1% | 138 | $2K |
| J2270 | Injection, morphine sulfate, up to 10 mg | <1% | 578 | $1K |
| J1885 | Injection, ketorolac tromethamine, per 15 mg | <1% | 1,389 | $918.89 |
| 87086 | Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine | <1% | 445 | $886.11 |
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | <1% | 407 | $834.43 |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | <1% | 465 | $759.40 |
| 80076 | <1% | 209 | $569.49 | |
| 85610 | <1% | 681 | $559.26 | |
| 81003 | <1% | 506 | $516.86 | |
| J2405 | Injection, ondansetron hydrochloride, per 1 mg | <1% | 1,391 | $465.47 |
| U0002 | 2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc | <1% | 29 | $389.24 |
| 83605 | <1% | 162 | $368.80 | |
| 85027 | <1% | 612 | $316.70 | |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | <1% | 267 | $273.31 |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | <1% | 107 | $266.71 |
| 87040 | <1% | 59 | $232.24 | |
| J1170 | Injection, hydromorphone, up to 4 mg | <1% | 63 | $146.19 |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | <1% | 17 | $137.24 |
| 85730 | <1% | 167 | $137.07 | |
| 87186 | <1% | 55 | $99.39 | |
| J1100 | Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg | <1% | 31 | $79.76 |
| J1650 | Injection, enoxaparin sodium, 10 mg | <1% | 15 | $65.59 |
| 82948 | <1% | 15 | $12.39 | |
| J0696 | Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg | <1% | 18 | $8.41 |
| J3010 | Injection, fentanyl citrate, 0.1 mg | <1% | 74 | $8.08 |
| J2060 | Injection, lorazepam, 2 mg | <1% | 33 | $5.68 |
| 80051 | 0% | 251 | $0.00 | |
| 88305 | Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination | 0% | 159 | $0.00 |
| 83880 | 0% | 102 | $0.00 | |
| 0241U | Neonatal screening for hereditary disorders, genomic sequence analysis panel | 0% | 29 | $0.00 |
| 83735 | 0% | 22 | $0.00 | |
| A9270 | Non-covered item or service | 0% | 47 | $0.00 |
| 78452 | Myocardial perfusion imaging, tomographic (SPECT); multiple studies at rest and/or stress | 0% | 13 | $0.00 |
| A9500 | Technetium tc-99m sestamibi, diagnostic, per study dose | 0% | 13 | $0.00 |
| 84520 | 0% | 253 | $0.00 | |
| 82565 | 0% | 255 | $0.00 | |
| 82947 | 0% | 247 | $0.00 | |
| 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 | 0% | 208 | $0.00 |
| 93017 | 0% | 14 | $0.00 |
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 officialRIESEN, JUDY (DIRECTOR, HOSPITAL BILLING)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Union Hospital of Cecil County | Elkton, MD | $4.84M |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County, INC | Elkton, MD | $2.07M |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County, INC. | Elkton, MD | $102K |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County | Elkton, MD | $93K |
| Open Mri & Imaging Center of Elkton,llc | Elkton, MD | $57K |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County, INC | Perryville, MD | $22K |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County, INC. | Elkton, MD | $15K |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County, INC. | Elkton, MD | $15K |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County, INC. | Elkton, MD | $10K |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County, INC. | North East, MD | $10K |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County, INC. | Elkton, MD | $9K |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County, INC. | Elkton, MD | $6K |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County, INC. | Elkton, MD | $4K |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County | Elkton, MD | $4K |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County | Elkton, MD | $3K |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County, INC. | Elkton, MD | $2K |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County | Perryville, MD | $1K |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County | Elkton, MD | $26.61 |
| Union Hospital of Cecil County, INC. | Elkton, MD | $0.00 |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.