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Thunder Bay Community Health Service, INC

Thunder Bay Community Health Service, INC was paid $277K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is G0470, Federally qualified health center (fqhc) visit, mental health, established patient; a medically-necessary, face-to-face mental health 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 mental health visit — 60% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTHUNDER BAY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICE, INC
CHEBOYGAN, MI 49721
33aNPI1598148157assigned 07/01/2015
28Total paid$277K
24GClaims8,924
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

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

Rank by total paid#152 of 241
Median peer was paid$477K
This provider vs. median0.6×

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 BATES, RICHARD controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$5.0K$10K2018201920202021202220232024
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
20181,216$36K
20191,281$37K
2020985$30K
2021713$22K
20221,613$51K
20231,765$56K
2024incomplete1,351$45K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
G0470 Federally qualified health center (fqhc) visit, mental health, established patient; a medically-necessary, face-to-face mental health 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 mental health visit 60% 4,789 1,795 $167K
90832 Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient 38% 4,048 1,603 $105K
90791 Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation <1% 26 26 $2K
D0150 Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient <1% 17 17 $698.75
D1120 Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child <1% 17 17 $643.97
D1206 Topical application of fluoride varnish <1% 15 15 $352.48
D0272 Bitewings - two radiographic images <1% 12 12 $281.25

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 officialBATES, RICHARD (CEO)
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