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Forrest County General Hospital

Forrest County General Hospital was paid $18K by Medicaid between Jun 2022 and Jan 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99283, emergency room visit (moderate) — 87% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFORREST COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL
RICHTON, MS 39476
33aNPI1437470622assigned 06/22/2010
33bProvider typeNurse Practitioner
28Total paid$18K
24GClaims706
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJun 2022 – Jan 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Nurse Practitioner providers in Mississippi

Rank by total paid#50 of 85
Median peer was paid$35K
This provider vs. median0.5×

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

Paid by month

$0$1.0K$2.0K$3.0K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2022351$5K
2023320$12K
2024incomplete35$125.21
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99283 Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity 87% 635 539 $16K
99284 Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity 10% 43 41 $2K
99282 Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity 1.9% 14 14 $343.64
93010 Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only <1% 14 13 $69.60

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 officialHESTER, BEN (CFO)
Parent organizationFORREST COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL
Same official

Other billing entities under HESTER, BEN

Full network →
ProviderLocationPaid
Forrest County General HospitalHattiesburg, MS$81.63M
Forrest County General HospitalPicayune, MS$21.66M
Forrest County General HospitalColumbia, MS$9.51M
Walthall General HospitalTylertown, MS$6.16M
Forrest County General HospitalPrentiss, MS$3.80M
Forrest County General HospitalPoplarville, MS$3.74M
Forrest County General HospitalPoplarville, MS$2.80M
Forrest County General HospitalPicayune, MS$2.76M
Forrest County General HospitalRichton, MS$1.58M
Forrest County General HospitalRichton, MS$1.36M
Forrest County General HospitalColumbia, MS$1.03M
Walthall General HospitalTylertown, MS$953K
Forrest General HospitalHattiesburg, MS$850K
Forrest County General HospitalPoplarville, MS$253K
FGH Physician BillingHattiesburg, MS$224K
Forrest County General HospitalPrentiss, MS$204K
Forrest County General HospitalPicayune, MS$65K
FGH Trauma Surgery ClinicHattiesburg, MS$47K
Forrest County General HospitalPoplarville, MS$22K
Walthall General HospitalTylertown, MS$3K

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