Medicaid Provider SpendingClaims paid 2018–2024 · HHS public file
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Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC

Catawba Valley Medical Group, INC was paid $423K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 99199, Unlisted special service, procedure or report — 40% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCATAWBA VALLEY MEDICAL GROUP, INC
HICKORY, NC 28601
33aNPI1730552399assigned 11/04/2015
28Total paid$423K
24GClaims30,995
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in North Carolina

Rank by total paid#297 of 960
Median peer was paid$135K
This provider vs. median3.1×

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 GALLAGHER, PAMELA 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
2018626$25K
2019431$22K
2020290$14K
20212,917$61K
20228,237$91K
20238,354$94K
2024incomplete10,140$115K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99199 Unlisted special service, procedure or report 40% 25,782 13,154 $170K
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 38% 3,181 2,596 $162K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 21% 1,875 1,561 $88K
90471 Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine <1% 51 46 $746.38
87804 Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type <1% 35 24 $561.54
87880 Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A <1% 29 24 $282.60
90686 <1% 26 25 $268.80
96127 <1% 16 12 $38.50

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 officialGALLAGHER, PAMELA (VP OF FINANCE)
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