Hospital
Chester River Hospital Center
Chester River Hospital Center was paid $627K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 46 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 46% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHESTER RIVER HOSPITAL CENTER
CHESTERTOWN, MD 21620
CHESTERTOWN, MD 21620
33aNPI1679536809assigned 04/10/2006
33bProvider typeGeneral Acute Care Hospital
28Total paid$627K
24GClaims28,494
24DCodes billed46
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other General Acute Care Hospital providers in Maryland
Rank by total paid#45 of 69
Median peer was paid$870K
This provider vs. median0.7×
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 KOZEL, KENNETH controls 14+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
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 | 3,635 | $35K | |
| 2019 | 3,173 | $60K | |
| 2020 | 4,628 | $83K | |
| 2021 | 6,160 | $133K | |
| 2022 | 6,277 | $123K | |
| 2023 | 2,827 | $111K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,794 | $81K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 46% | 1,335 | 1,127 | $291K |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 43% | 2,266 | 1,948 | $272K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 4.8% | 676 | 583 | $30K |
| G0463 | Hospital outpatient clinic visit for assessment and management of a patient | 1.1% | 411 | 377 | $7K |
| 71046 | Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views | <1% | 710 | 639 | $5K |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | <1% | 369 | 164 | $5K |
| U0004 | 2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r | <1% | 755 | 623 | $4K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | <1% | 4,601 | 3,552 | $3K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | <1% | 5,218 | 3,907 | $2K |
| 99281 | Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, self-limited or minor | <1% | 474 | 351 | $2K |
| 80050 | General health panel | <1% | 294 | 268 | $1K |
| 84484 | <1% | 1,170 | 936 | $1K |
34 more codes
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 2,259 | $1K |
| 82306 | Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed | <1% | 269 | $580.30 |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | <1% | 751 | $412.50 |
| 81001 | <1% | 1,705 | $310.06 | |
| 70450 | Computed tomography, head or brain; without contrast material | <1% | 112 | $215.38 |
| 87086 | Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine | <1% | 146 | $167.25 |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | <1% | 150 | $163.20 |
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | <1% | 497 | $141.15 |
| 83880 | <1% | 46 | $113.97 | |
| 71045 | Radiologic examination, chest; single view | <1% | 335 | $97.30 |
| 85610 | <1% | 97 | $85.69 | |
| 94640 | Pressurized or nonpressurized inhalation treatment for acute airway obstruction | <1% | 31 | $83.81 |
| 85730 | <1% | 26 | $61.63 | |
| J1100 | Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg | <1% | 18 | $48.86 |
| 83735 | <1% | 1,274 | $41.52 | |
| 82948 | <1% | 70 | $36.75 | |
| J2250 | Injection, midazolam hydrochloride, per 1 mg | <1% | 80 | $14.50 |
| J7030 | Infusion, normal saline solution , 1000 cc | <1% | 882 | $9.94 |
| 83690 | <1% | 29 | $8.89 | |
| 84439 | 0% | 58 | $0.00 | |
| 84550 | 0% | 14 | $0.00 | |
| 83655 | 0% | 119 | $0.00 | |
| G1004 | Clinical decision support mechanism national decision support company, as defined by the medicare appropriate use criteria program | 0% | 723 | $0.00 |
| J7120 | Ringers lactate infusion, up to 1000 cc | 0% | 67 | $0.00 |
| 81003 | 0% | 43 | $0.00 | |
| J2405 | Injection, ondansetron hydrochloride, per 1 mg | 0% | 64 | $0.00 |
| J7050 | Infusion, normal saline solution, 250 cc | 0% | 42 | $0.00 |
| 87636 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus types A and B | 0% | 127 | $0.00 |
| 83605 | 0% | 35 | $0.00 | |
| 82550 | 0% | 48 | $0.00 | |
| 0241U | Neonatal screening for hereditary disorders, genomic sequence analysis panel | 0% | 46 | $0.00 |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | 0% | 15 | $0.00 |
| 82962 | 0% | 17 | $0.00 | |
| J1030 | Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg | 0% | 20 | $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 officialKOZEL, KENNETH (PRESIDENT & CEO)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Shore Health System, INC | Easton, MD | $5.28M |
| Shore Health System, INC. | Easton, MD | $1.17M |
| Shore Health System INC | Easton, MD | $1.07M |
| Shore Health System, INC | Easton, MD | $392K |
| Shore Health System, INC | Cambridge, MD | $349K |
| Chester River Hospital Center | Chestertown, MD | $137K |
| Shore Health System, INC | Cambridge, MD | $115K |
| Shore Health System, INC | Easton, MD | $57K |
| Shore Health System INC | Denton, MD | $40K |
| Um Shore Regional Health, INC | Chestertown, MD | $21K |
| Shore Health System, INC. | Easton, MD | $7K |
| Shore Health System, INC | Easton, MD | $3K |
| Shore Health System, INC | Queenstown, MD | $715.74 |
| Shore Health System, INC. | Easton, MD | $-0.04 |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.