Physician
Lester E Cox Medical Centers
Lester E Cox Medical Centers was paid $2.37M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 21 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 47% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLESTER E COX MEDICAL CENTERS
SPRINGFIELD, MO 65807
SPRINGFIELD, MO 65807
33aNPI1467667980assigned 05/10/2007
33bProvider typeObstetrics & Gynecology Physician
28Total paid$2.37M
24GClaims49,364
24DCodes billed21
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician providers in Missouri
Rank by total paid#3 of 358
Median peer was paid$16K
This provider vs. median152×
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 MCWAY, JACOB 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3,643 | $115K | |
| 2019 | 3,871 | $123K | |
| 2020 | 5,187 | $154K | |
| 2021 | 10,905 | $370K | |
| 2022 | 10,473 | $468K | |
| 2023 | 8,596 | $621K | |
| 2024incomplete | 6,689 | $516K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 47% | 16,560 | 14,829 | $1.12M |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 41% | 19,026 | 17,243 | $970K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 4.2% | 2,461 | 1,102 | $99K |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | 3.3% | 1,371 | 1,271 | $77K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 2.6% | 1,013 | 738 | $60K |
| 99231 | Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity | <1% | 712 | 305 | $15K |
| 99221 | <1% | 260 | 192 | $13K | |
| 99391 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, infant (under 1 year) | <1% | 82 | 79 | $9K |
| 90471 | Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine | <1% | 161 | 155 | $2K |
| 0001A | <1% | 67 | 58 | $2K | |
| 99460 | <1% | 13 | 13 | $1K | |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | <1% | 13 | 12 | $612.30 |
9 more codes
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 officialMCWAY, JACOB (SR VP & CFO)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $112.33M |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $25.78M |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $16.97M |
| Lester E. Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $3.50M |
| Lester E. Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $2.78M |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Lebanon, MO | $1.44M |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Ozark, MO | $1.40M |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Nixa, MO | $1.35M |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $1.23M |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $1.13M |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $1.07M |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $795K |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $771K |
| Lester E. Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $593K |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $592K |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $560K |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $553K |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $440K |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Springfield, MO | $376K |
| Lester E Cox Medical Centers | Willow Springs, MO | $367K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.