Physician
Catawba Valley Medical Group INC
Catawba Valley Medical Group INC was paid $509K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 53% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCATAWBA VALLEY MEDICAL GROUP INC
HICKORY, NC 28602
HICKORY, NC 28602
33aNPI1528461670assigned 10/03/2014
33bProvider typeFamily Medicine Physician
28Total paid$509K
24GClaims40,277
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#256 of 960
Median peer was paid$135K
This provider vs. median3.8×
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 GALLAGHER, PAMELA 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 | 1,330 | $37K | |
| 2019 | 1,290 | $42K | |
| 2020 | 1,242 | $37K | |
| 2021 | 3,933 | $53K | |
| 2022 | 9,353 | $107K | |
| 2023 | 11,878 | $118K | |
| 2024incomplete | 11,251 | $114K |
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 | 53% | 5,662 | 4,489 | $269K |
| 99199 | Unlisted special service, procedure or report | 43% | 29,027 | 14,481 | $221K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 2.7% | 293 | 249 | $14K |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 2,541 | 2,067 | $4K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | <1% | 130 | 116 | $683.70 |
| 96127 | <1% | 49 | 44 | $163.67 | |
| G2211 | Visit complexity inherent to evaluation and management associated with medical care services that serve as the continuing focal point for all needed health care services and/or with medical care services that are part of ongoing care related to a patient's single, serious condition or a complex condition. (add-on code, list separately in addition to office/outpatient evaluation and management visit, new or established) | <1% | 60 | 41 | $136.46 |
| 81003 | <1% | 58 | 47 | $90.13 | |
| 99000 | <1% | 2,437 | 1,942 | $29.21 | |
| G0439 | Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit | 0% | 20 | 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 officialGALLAGHER, PAMELA (VP OF FINANCE)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Catawba Valley Medical Center | Hickory, NC | $17.37M |
| Catawba Valley Medical Center | Hickory, NC | $998K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Newton, NC | $892K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, Ing | Hickory, NC | $821K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Conover, NC | $599K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Sherrills Ford, NC | $555K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Hickory, NC | $481K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Hickory, NC | $477K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Hickory, NC | $423K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group INC | Taylorsville, NC | $329K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group INC | Hickory, NC | $277K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Center | Hickory, NC | $247K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Conover, NC | $218K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Taylorsville, NC | $196K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Center | Hickory, NC | $179K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Center | Hickory, NC | $177K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Hickory, NC | $173K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Maiden, NC | $166K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC | Hickory, NC | $138K |
| Catawba Valley Medical Center | Hickory, NC | $130K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.