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Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC

Palmetto Primary Care Physicians, LLC was paid $1.84M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 45 billing codes. Its largest line is 84443, Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) — 16% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPALMETTO PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS, LLC
N CHARLESTON, SC 29406
33aNPI1659660645assigned 03/31/2011
28Total paid$1.84M
24GClaims177,982
24DCodes billed45
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Nutrition Education Nutritionist providers in South Carolina

Rank by total paid#1 of 5
Median peer was paid$411K
This provider vs. median4.5×

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 ARNAU, THOMAS 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
201822,471$291K
201921,970$260K
202023,436$259K
202129,536$303K
202229,143$283K
202326,997$248K
2024incomplete24,429$198K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
84443 Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) 16% 20,648 19,314 $297K
80053 Comprehensive metabolic panel 15% 30,477 28,486 $273K
80061 Lipid panel 12% 21,029 19,726 $225K
85025 Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count 10% 27,157 25,435 $192K
82306 Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed 9.8% 7,326 6,946 $180K
83036 Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) 8.4% 19,057 17,934 $155K
84481 3.8% 4,757 4,506 $70K
82607 3.6% 4,985 4,698 $65K
87491 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe 3.1% 1,512 1,365 $57K
84439 2.8% 7,279 6,847 $52K
82728 2.1% 3,256 3,089 $39K
87591 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe 2.0% 1,479 1,328 $37K
33 more codes
85027 1.8% 6,007 $33K
87661 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Trichomonas vaginalis, amplified probe 1.3% 1,170 $25K
80048 Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) <1% 2,269 $18K
82043 <1% 3,523 $18K
83540 <1% 2,888 $17K
83550 <1% 2,261 $17K
82570 <1% 3,498 $17K
87806 <1% 481 $13K
82746 <1% 726 $9K
84153 <1% 480 $8K
80076 <1% 1,060 $7K
83735 <1% 746 $5K
81001 <1% 694 $2K
83690 <1% 221 $2K
85610 <1% 429 $1K
81003 <1% 529 $1K
85652 <1% 470 $1K
86431 <1% 200 $1K
86140 <1% 235 $1K
87086 Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine <1% 89 $908.74
84403 <1% 32 $728.23
85651 <1% 136 $551.23
83721 <1% 72 $492.21
82550 <1% 87 $476.64
83001 <1% 27 $423.69
82150 <1% 58 $337.46
86677 <1% 13 $246.46
83002 <1% 14 $210.12
84144 <1% 13 $180.80
87077 <1% 14 $141.25
87186 <1% 13 $139.39
3044F 0% 367 $0.00
3051F 0% 198 $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.

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