Clinic
Cherokee Health Systems
Cherokee Health Systems was paid $375K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 28 billing codes. Its largest line is 90832, psychotherapy session, about 30 minutes — 27% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHEROKEE HEALTH SYSTEMS
ALCOA, TN 37701
ALCOA, TN 37701
33aNPI1760619225assigned 06/11/2009
33bProvider typeFederally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
28Total paid$375K
24GClaims16,987
24DCodes billed28
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) providers in Tennessee
Rank by total paid#26 of 90
Median peer was paid$87K
This provider vs. median4.3×
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
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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 | 3,701 | $110K | |
| 2019 | 4,192 | $117K | |
| 2020 | 3,351 | $98K | |
| 2021 | 1,617 | $20K | |
| 2022 | 1,656 | $9K | |
| 2023 | 1,557 | $11K | |
| 2024incomplete | 913 | $9K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient | 27% | 2,026 | 1,437 | $101K |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 18% | 933 | 704 | $69K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 17% | 2,166 | 1,860 | $63K |
| 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 | 14% | 2,080 | 1,709 | $51K |
| G0467 | Community health center visit, returning patientFederally qualified health center (fqhc) visit, established patient; a medically-necessary, face-to-face encounter (one-on-one) between an established patient and a fqhc practitioner during which time one or more fqhc services are rendered and includes a typical bundle of medicare-covered services that would be furnished per diem to a patient receiving a fqhc visit | 9.6% | 2,608 | 2,148 | $36K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 3.5% | 126 | 113 | $13K |
| G0511 | Rural health clinic or federally qualified health center (rhc or fqhc) only, general care management, 20 minutes or more of clinical staff time for chronic care management services or behavioral health integration services directed by an rhc or fqhc practitioner (physician, np, pa, or cnm), per calendar month | 2.9% | 2,772 | 2,576 | $11K |
| G2025 | Payment for a telehealth distant site service furnished by a rural health clinic (rhc) or federally qualified health center (fqhc) only | 2.0% | 622 | 467 | $7K |
| 90460 | Immunization administration through 18 years of age via any route, first or only component | 2.0% | 187 | 157 | $7K |
| 96110 | Developmental screening, with scoring and documentation, per standardized instrument | 1.3% | 553 | 276 | $5K |
| 3008F | <1% | 1,037 | 851 | $2K | |
| 99394 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, adolescent (12-17 years) | <1% | 27 | 12 | $2K |
16 more codes
| 3074F | <1% | 347 | $2K | |
| 3078F | <1% | 316 | $2K | |
| 90688 | <1% | 126 | $755.42 | |
| 90471 | Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine | <1% | 43 | $624.60 |
| 3044F | <1% | 124 | $500.00 | |
| 3079F | <1% | 208 | $300.00 | |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 289 | $296.10 |
| 90686 | <1% | 87 | $276.04 | |
| G0071 | Payment for communication technology-based services for 5 minutes or more of a virtual (non-face-to-face) communication between an rural health clinic (rhc) or federally qualified health center (fqhc) practitioner and rhc or fqhc patient, or 5 minutes or more of remote evaluation of recorded video and/or images by an rhc or fqhc practitioner, occurring in lieu of an office visit; rhc or fqhc only | <1% | 38 | $92.20 |
| 3075F | <1% | 17 | $40.00 | |
| 3077F | <1% | 17 | $10.00 | |
| 99441 | <1% | 39 | $5.00 | |
| 99408 | <1% | 21 | $0.11 | |
| G0008 | Administration of influenza virus vaccine | 0% | 47 | $0.00 |
| 4037F | 0% | 117 | $0.00 | |
| 90651 | 0% | 14 | $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 officialKHATRI, PARINDA (CEO)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Cherokee Health Systems | Talbott, TN | $97.62M |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Knoxville, TN | $4.66M |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Knoxville, TN | $591K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Morristown, TN | $264K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Knoxville, TN | $238K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Chattanooga, TN | $196K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Seymour, TN | $196K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | New Tazewell, TN | $185K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Blaine, TN | $166K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Lenoir City, TN | $140K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Maynardville, TN | $133K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Clinton, TN | $128K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Knoxville, TN | $123K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Englewood, TN | $62K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Newport, TN | $38K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Washburn, TN | $25K |
| Cherokee Health Systems | Knoxville, TN | $1K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.