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Lester E Cox Medical Centers

Lester E Cox Medical Centers was paid $1.23M by Medicaid between Jan 2020 and Nov 2024, across 15 billing codes. Its largest line is 99215, doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex) — 38% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoLESTER E COX MEDICAL CENTERS
SPRINGFIELD, MO 65807
33aNPI1558909564assigned 12/20/2019
28Total paid$1.23M
24GClaims10,887
24DCodes billed15
24AFirst – last monthJan 2020 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Pediatric Endocrinology Physician providers in Missouri

Rank by total paid#1 of 21
Median peer was paid$34K
This provider vs. median36×

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

$0$20K$40K2018201920202021202220232024
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
20201,337$113K
20212,354$196K
20222,484$260K
20232,628$377K
2024incomplete2,084$288K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99215 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis 38% 2,814 2,748 $463K
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 36% 4,478 4,367 $440K
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 18% 1,613 1,533 $217K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 2.8% 432 430 $35K
95251 2.2% 788 772 $27K
95819 1.8% 370 334 $23K
99205 Prolong outpt/office vis <1% 69 60 $10K
99244 Office or other outpatient consultation, moderate to high complexity <1% 40 39 $5K
99243 <1% 54 50 $5K
99245 <1% 13 13 $3K
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% 14 13 $2K
83036 Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) <1% 153 139 $1K
3 more codes
95816 <1% 25 $1K
1159F 0% 12 $0.00
1160F 0% 12 $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 officialMCWAY, JACOB (SR VP & CFO)
Same official

Other billing entities under MCWAY, JACOB

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ProviderLocationPaid
Lester E Cox Medical CentersSpringfield, MO$112.33M
Lester E Cox Medical CentersSpringfield, MO$25.78M
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Lester E. Cox Medical CentersSpringfield, MO$2.78M
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Lester E Cox Medical CentersLebanon, MO$1.44M
Lester E Cox Medical CentersOzark, MO$1.40M
Lester E Cox Medical CentersNixa, MO$1.35M
Lester E Cox Medical CentersSpringfield, MO$1.13M
Lester E Cox Medical CentersSpringfield, MO$1.07M
Lester E Cox Medical CentersSpringfield, MO$795K
Lester E Cox Medical CentersSpringfield, MO$771K
Lester E. Cox Medical CentersSpringfield, MO$593K
Lester E Cox Medical CentersSpringfield, MO$592K
Lester E Cox Medical CentersSpringfield, MO$560K
Lester E Cox Medical CentersSpringfield, MO$553K
Lester E Cox Medical CentersSpringfield, MO$440K
Lester E Cox Medical CentersSpringfield, MO$376K
Lester E Cox Medical CentersWillow Springs, MO$367K

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