Medicaid Provider SpendingClaims paid 2018–2024 · HHS public file
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West Hawaii Community Health Center, INC.

West Hawaii Community Health Center, INC. was paid $554K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jun 2022, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 53% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoWEST HAWAII COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, INC.
HILO, HI 96720
33aNPI1568784304assigned 02/22/2010
28Total paid$554K
24GClaims5,032
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jun 2022
Compared with peers

Next to other Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) providers in Hawaii

Rank by total paid#17 of 31
Median peer was paid$614K
This provider vs. median0.9×

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 TAAFFE, RICHARD controls 12+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$10K$20K$30K2018201920202021202220232024
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
20182,075$197K
20191,765$177K
2020613$86K
2021432$69K
2022147$26K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 53% 1,672 1,446 $295K
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 37% 1,095 820 $206K
G0101 Cervical or vaginal cancer screening; pelvic and clinical breast examination 9.0% 298 295 $50K
G0467 Community health center visit, returning patientFederally qualified health center (fqhc) visit, established patient; a medically-necessary, face-to-face encounter (one-on-one) between an established patient and a fqhc practitioner during which time one or more fqhc services are rendered and includes a typical bundle of medicare-covered services that would be furnished per diem to a patient receiving a fqhc visit <1% 27 26 $2K
81002 <1% 825 531 $411.26
81025 0% 1,115 1,027 $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 officialTAAFFE, RICHARD (CEO)
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