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Forrest County General Hospital

Forrest County General Hospital was paid $204K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 12 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 56% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFORREST COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL
PRENTISS, MS 39474
33aNPI1689952707assigned 07/22/2011
28Total paid$204K
24GClaims7,260
24DCodes billed12
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Rural Health Clinic/Center providers in Mississippi

Rank by total paid#104 of 152
Median peer was paid$567K
This provider vs. median0.4×

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 HESTER, BEN controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$5.0K$10K$15K2018201920202021202220232024
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
20181,368$45K
20191,610$58K
2020997$22K
2021864$28K
20221,011$33K
2023670$11K
2024incomplete740$6K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99214 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity 56% 3,780 3,115 $114K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 36% 2,033 1,714 $74K
96372 Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular 3.1% 242 182 $6K
99307 2.9% 285 280 $6K
G2025 Payment for a telehealth distant site service furnished by a rural health clinic (rhc) or federally qualified health center (fqhc) only 1.5% 350 275 $3K
99308 Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward <1% 14 14 $683.94
99442 <1% 23 19 $315.62
87426 Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) <1% 179 156 $83.46
G2211 Visit complexity inherent to evaluation and management associated with medical care services that serve as the continuing focal point for all needed health care services and/or with medical care services that are part of ongoing care related to a patient's single, serious condition or a complex condition. (add-on code, list separately in addition to office/outpatient evaluation and management visit, new or established) 0% 290 261 $0.00
87804 Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type 0% 40 35 $0.00
J1030 Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg 0% 12 12 $0.00
J1100 Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg 0% 12 12 $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 officialHESTER, BEN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER)
Same official

Other billing entities under HESTER, BEN

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ProviderLocationPaid
Forrest County General HospitalHattiesburg, MS$81.63M
Forrest County General HospitalPicayune, MS$21.66M
Forrest County General HospitalColumbia, MS$9.51M
Walthall General HospitalTylertown, MS$6.16M
Forrest County General HospitalPrentiss, MS$3.80M
Forrest County General HospitalPoplarville, MS$3.74M
Forrest County General HospitalPoplarville, MS$2.80M
Forrest County General HospitalPicayune, MS$2.76M
Forrest County General HospitalRichton, MS$1.58M
Forrest County General HospitalRichton, MS$1.36M
Forrest County General HospitalColumbia, MS$1.03M
Walthall General HospitalTylertown, MS$953K
Forrest General HospitalHattiesburg, MS$850K
Forrest County General HospitalPoplarville, MS$253K
FGH Physician BillingHattiesburg, MS$224K
Forrest County General HospitalPicayune, MS$65K
FGH Trauma Surgery ClinicHattiesburg, MS$47K
Forrest County General HospitalPoplarville, MS$22K
Forrest County General HospitalRichton, MS$18K
Walthall General HospitalTylertown, MS$3K

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.