Physician
First Choice Health Care LLC
First Choice Health Care LLC was paid $340K by Medicaid between Apr 2021 and Dec 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 52% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFIRST CHOICE HEALTH CARE LLC
GALAX, VA 24333
GALAX, VA 24333
33aNPI1821691122assigned 11/18/2020
33bProvider typeFamily Medicine Physician
28Total paid$340K
24GClaims7,547
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthApr 2021 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in Virginia
Rank by total paid#98 of 772
Median peer was paid$13K
This provider vs. median26×
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 | 1,016 | $35K | |
| 2022 | 2,249 | $103K | |
| 2023 | 2,061 | $91K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,221 | $111K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 52% | 2,501 | 2,254 | $177K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 40% | 2,563 | 2,267 | $135K |
| 87811 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 3.8% | 452 | 417 | $13K |
| 99204 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity | 1.8% | 95 | 82 | $6K |
| 87636 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus types A and B | <1% | 34 | 24 | $3K |
| 87880 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A | <1% | 216 | 188 | $3K |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 1,547 | 1,410 | $2K |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | <1% | 98 | 55 | $836.24 |
| 90674 | <1% | 13 | 13 | $130.98 | |
| 99000 | <1% | 28 | 26 | $29.44 |
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 officialCOCHRAN, JOANIE (CREDENTIALING AGENT)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Iredell Physician Network LLC | Statesville, NC | $15K |
| Iredell Physician Network, LLC | Mooresville, NC | $5K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.