Hospital
ST. Luke's Hospital INC.
ST. Luke's Hospital INC. was paid $319K by Medicaid between Mar 2021 and Sep 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 89% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL INC.
COLUMBUS, NC 28722
COLUMBUS, NC 28722
33aNPI1497944912assigned 10/22/2007
33bProvider typeCritical Access Hospital
28Total paid$319K
24GClaims4,348
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthMar 2021 – Sep 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Critical Access Hospital providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#20 of 25
Median peer was paid$1.32M
This provider vs. median0.2×
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.
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 | 1,027 | $70K | |
| 2022 | 1,600 | $113K | |
| 2023 | 974 | $74K | |
| 2024incomplete | 747 | $62K |
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 | 89% | 3,458 | 2,831 | $285K |
| 99282 | Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity | 5.7% | 615 | 461 | $18K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 3.3% | 233 | 201 | $10K |
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 1.7% | 42 | 41 | $6K |
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 officialHIGHSMITH, CHARLES (CEO AND PRESIDENT)