Physician
First Care Medical Clinic
First Care Medical Clinic was paid $75K by Medicaid between Jul 2021 and Dec 2024, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is 99199, Unlisted special service, procedure or report — 100% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFIRST CARE MEDICAL CLINIC
GASTONIA, NC 28054
GASTONIA, NC 28054
33aNPI1639460108assigned 05/02/2011
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$75K
24GClaims10,970
24DCodes billed1
24AFirst – last monthJul 2021 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#110 of 196
Median peer was paid$120K
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.
Box 24A · Dates of service
Paid by month
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
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 486 | $4K | |
| 2022 | 1,996 | $12K | |
| 2023 | 3,147 | $21K | |
| 2024incomplete | 5,341 | $38K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99199 | Unlisted special service, procedure or report | 100% | 10,970 | 6,126 | $75K |
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 officialOKWARA, BENEDICT (MEDICAL DIRECTOR)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| First Care Medical Clinic, PA | Monroe, NC | $15.59M |
| First Care Medical Clinic | Charlotte, NC | $358K |
| First Care Medical Clinic | Albemarle, NC | $199K |
| First Care Medical Clinic | Rock Hill, SC | $149K |
| First Care Medical Clinic | Locust, NC | $76K |
| First Care Medical Clinic | Salisbury, NC | $23K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.