Agency
County of Buncombe
County of Buncombe was paid $3.74M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 71 billing codes. Its largest line is 99199, Unlisted special service, procedure or report — 83% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCOUNTY OF BUNCOMBE
ASHEVILLE, NC 28801
ASHEVILLE, NC 28801
33aNPI1669537593assigned 12/22/2006
33bProvider typePublic Health or Welfare Agency
28Total paid$3.74M
24GClaims680,317
24DCodes billed71
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Public Health or Welfare Agency providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#6 of 25
Median peer was paid$1.15M
This provider vs. median3.2×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2,251 | $37K | |
| 2019 | 4,872 | $35K | |
| 2020 | 4,723 | $53K | |
| 2021 | 81,343 | $611K | |
| 2022 | 184,539 | $1.02M | |
| 2023 | 195,194 | $952K | |
| 2024incomplete | 207,395 | $1.03M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99199 | Unlisted special service, procedure or report | 83% | 632,659 | 624,037 | $3.12M |
| 0002A | 3.1% | 2,504 | 2,108 | $116K | |
| 0001A | 3.0% | 3,003 | 2,502 | $114K | |
| 90471 | Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine | 1.5% | 6,820 | 4,181 | $56K |
| 90472 | Immunization administration, each additional vaccine (list separately) | 1.3% | 2,934 | 1,870 | $47K |
| 99211 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity | 1.1% | 1,655 | 1,299 | $41K |
| T1001 | Nursing assessment / evaluation | <1% | 647 | 260 | $32K |
| 90651 | <1% | 540 | 360 | $27K | |
| U0003 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (dna or rna); severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), amplified probe technique, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r | <1% | 481 | 306 | $24K |
| 0031A | <1% | 466 | 364 | $16K | |
| 90480 | <1% | 743 | 320 | $15K | |
| 0071A | <1% | 457 | 241 | $12K |
59 more codes
| 90715 | <1% | 1,008 | $12K | |
| 91320 | <1% | 442 | $10K | |
| 0004A | <1% | 264 | $9K | |
| 0072A | <1% | 299 | $8K | |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) | <1% | 89 | $7K |
| 90686 | <1% | 2,007 | $7K | |
| 0054A | <1% | 172 | $7K | |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 3,624 | $7K |
| 0011A | <1% | 182 | $6K | |
| 0124A | <1% | 227 | $5K | |
| 87081 | <1% | 1,302 | $4K | |
| 0064A | <1% | 129 | $4K | |
| 90632 | <1% | 61 | $4K | |
| 0111A | <1% | 174 | $3K | |
| 0012A | <1% | 74 | $3K | |
| 90619 | <1% | 677 | $2K | |
| 90734 | <1% | 197 | $2K | |
| 90713 | <1% | 114 | $2K | |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine) | <1% | 19 | $2K |
| 87210 | <1% | 744 | $2K | |
| 81025 | <1% | 309 | $2K | |
| 0003A | <1% | 31 | $1K | |
| T1002 | Rn services, up to 15 minutes | <1% | 47 | $1K |
| J1050 | Injection, medroxyprogesterone acetate, 1 mg | <1% | 605 | $1K |
| 90656 | <1% | 220 | $1K | |
| 0134A | <1% | 64 | $1K | |
| 0052A | <1% | 51 | $1K | |
| 0112A | <1% | 71 | $1K | |
| 90716 | <1% | 43 | $758.26 | |
| 82120 | <1% | 369 | $552.67 | |
| 90714 | <1% | 18 | $376.67 | |
| 90620 | <1% | 49 | $368.00 | |
| 99502 | <1% | 28 | $240.00 | |
| 87491 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe | <1% | 1,230 | $216.38 |
| 87591 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe | <1% | 1,223 | $216.38 |
| 91312 | <1% | 203 | $200.54 | |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | <1% | 18 | $179.44 |
| 87389 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay technique, HIV-1 antigen with HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies | <1% | 913 | $122.12 |
| 87340 | <1% | 31 | $82.81 | |
| 86706 | <1% | 31 | $81.96 | |
| 90744 | <1% | 41 | $54.10 | |
| 86592 | <1% | 911 | $21.68 | |
| 87220 | <1% | 214 | $21.56 | |
| 90672 | <1% | 21 | $21.00 | |
| 91300 | <1% | 5,709 | $0.27 | |
| LU903 | 0% | 444 | $0.00 | |
| 90633 | 0% | 55 | $0.00 | |
| LU282 | 0% | 37 | $0.00 | |
| LU242 | 0% | 113 | $0.00 | |
| 91311 | 0% | 285 | $0.00 | |
| 86787 | 0% | 40 | $0.00 | |
| 91313 | 0% | 22 | $0.00 | |
| 90710 | 0% | 18 | $0.00 | |
| 91305 | 0% | 290 | $0.00 | |
| 91303 | 0% | 453 | $0.00 | |
| 91307 | 0% | 791 | $0.00 | |
| LUEXP | 0% | 103 | $0.00 | |
| 91301 | 0% | 382 | $0.00 | |
| 91306 | 0% | 120 | $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 officialMATHESON, ELLIS (HEALTH DIRECTOR)