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Watauga Medical Center INC

Watauga Medical Center INC was paid $4K by Medicaid between Mar 2023 and Aug 2024, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is 00170, Anesthesia for intraoral procedures, including biopsy — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoWATAUGA MEDICAL CENTER INC
BOONE, NC 28607
33aNPI1548335581assigned 11/22/2006
28Total paid$4K
24GClaims54
24DCodes billed1
24AFirst – last monthMar 2023 – Aug 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist providers in North Carolina

Rank by total paid#28 of 37
Median peer was paid$16K
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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official LONG, MARY controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$500$1.0K$1.5K2018201920202021202220232024
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
202340$2K
2024incomplete14$1K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
00170 Anesthesia for intraoral procedures, including biopsy 100% 54 36 $4K

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 officialLONG, MARY (SR VP MEDICAL STAFF RELATIONS)
Parent organizationAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
Same official

Other billing entities under LONG, MARY

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