Palacios Community Medical Center

Palacios Community Medical Center was paid $23K by Medicaid between Mar 2021 and May 2023, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 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 — 51% of everything it billed.

Compared with peers

Next to other Critical Access Hospital providers in Texas

Rank by total paid#35 of 47

Median peer was paid$170K

This provider vs. median0.1×

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.

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
2021	259	$20K
2023	47	$3K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
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	51%	117	114	$12K
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	37%	69	66	$8K
0001A		3.9%	24	24	$891.54
0002A		3.5%	21	21	$785.21
87880	Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A	2.6%	34	31	$600.84
87804	Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type	<1%	13	12	$215.03
0012A		<1%	28	28	$114.74

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 officialVANDEVEER, ALDEN (C.E.O.)