Catawba Valley Medical Center
Catawba Valley Medical Center was paid $247K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 49% of everything it billed.
HICKORY, NC 28602
Next to other Hospitalist Physician providers in North Carolina
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.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 816 | $24K | |
| 2019 | 551 | $18K | |
| 2020 | 833 | $32K | |
| 2021 | 587 | $26K | |
| 2022 | 820 | $34K | |
| 2023 | 1,105 | $46K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,574 | $67K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 49% | 3,920 | 1,199 | $121K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 22% | 718 | 507 | $54K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 19% | 988 | 368 | $46K |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | 10% | 633 | 487 | $25K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | <1% | 27 | 16 | $981.95 |
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.
Who's on the registration
| 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 | $509K |
| 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 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.