Agency
South Carolina Dept of Mental Health Accounting Office
South Carolina Dept of Mental Health Accounting Office was paid $8.75M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 90792, Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services — 70% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSOUTH CAROLINA DEPT OF MENTAL HEALTH ACCOUNTING OFFICE
COLUMBIA, SC 29201
COLUMBIA, SC 29201
33aNPI1831338961assigned 02/12/2009
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$8.75M
24GClaims21,314
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in South Carolina
Rank by total paid#5 of 79
Median peer was paid$526K
This provider vs. median17×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3,261 | $1.47M | |
| 2019 | 3,599 | $1.60M | |
| 2020 | 2,641 | $1.04M | |
| 2021 | 3,606 | $1.42M | |
| 2022 | 3,672 | $1.51M | |
| 2023 | 2,905 | $1.08M | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,630 | $635K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90792 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | 70% | 10,742 | 9,363 | $6.10M |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 18% | 4,736 | 3,726 | $1.57M |
| 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 | 10% | 4,299 | 3,201 | $910K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 1.9% | 1,537 | 1,247 | $165K |
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 officialRATLIFF, BRENDA (MEDICAL DIRECTOR)