Palmetto Health

Palmetto Health was paid $154K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2018, across 12 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 41% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPALMETTO HEALTH
COLUMBIA, SC 29203

33aNPI1518252782assigned 06/15/2011

33bProvider typeCardiovascular Disease Physician

28Total paid$154K

24GClaims5,031

24DCodes billed12

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2018

Compared with peers

Next to other Cardiovascular Disease Physician providers in South Carolina

Rank by total paid#16 of 64

Median peer was paid$3K

This provider vs. median51×

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 COVEN, DARRELL controls 12+ 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	5,031	$154K

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	41%	1,712	1,607	$63K
93306	Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete	37%	1,402	1,342	$57K
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	7.1%	186	81	$11K
93000		6.7%	1,197	1,147	$10K
99215	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis	2.6%	69	63	$4K
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	1.9%	76	41	$3K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	1.5%	73	66	$2K
93010	Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only	<1%	211	203	$1K
99204	Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity	<1%	14	14	$705.28
99222	Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	<1%	12	12	$530.75
93971		<1%	13	12	$286.62
36415	Collection of venous blood by venipuncture	<1%	66	62	$130.38

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 officialCOVEN, DARRELL (DIRECTOR, AMBULATORY SERVICES-FINAN)

Parent organizationPALMETTO HEALTH

Same official

Other billing entities under COVEN, DARRELL

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Provider	Location	Paid
Palmetto Health	Sumter, SC	$597K
Palmetto Health	Columbia, SC	$114K
Palmetto Health	Columbia, SC	$93K
Palmetto Health	Columbia, SC	$80K
Palmetto Health	Columbia, SC	$15K
Palmetto Health	Columbia, SC	$10K
Palmetto Health	Columbia, SC	$5K
Palmetto Health	Columbia, SC	$4K
Palmetto Health	Columbia, SC	$4K
Palmetto Health	Columbia, SC	$3K
Palmetto Health	Columbia, SC	$1K
Palmetto Health	Columbia, SC	$708.59

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