Physician
Cherokee Medical Center
Cherokee Medical Center was paid $690K by Medicaid between Jul 2020 and Dec 2024, across 31 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 25% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHEROKEE MEDICAL CENTER
GAFFNEY, SC 29341
GAFFNEY, SC 29341
33aNPI1851942346assigned 09/25/2019
33bProvider typePediatrics Physician
28Total paid$690K
24GClaims16,804
24DCodes billed31
24AFirst – last monthJul 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Pediatrics Physician providers in South Carolina
Rank by total paid#60 of 471
Median peer was paid$18K
This provider vs. median39×
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 MEINKE, KENNETH controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 419 | $28K | |
| 2021 | 3,265 | $219K | |
| 2022 | 6,201 | $280K | |
| 2023 | 3,336 | $77K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,583 | $85K |
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 | 25% | 2,002 | 1,795 | $174K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 18% | 1,943 | 1,765 | $122K |
| 99391 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, infant (under 1 year) | 17% | 1,308 | 1,217 | $117K |
| 90460 | Immunization administration through 18 years of age via any route, first or only component | 16% | 3,103 | 2,303 | $112K |
| 99392 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, early childhood (1-4 years) | 11% | 826 | 806 | $78K |
| 87811 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 4.4% | 766 | 750 | $30K |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | 3.1% | 1,620 | 814 | $21K |
| 99393 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, late childhood (5-11 years) | 1.6% | 123 | 116 | $11K |
| 87880 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A | 1.3% | 777 | 754 | $9K |
| 87807 | <1% | 609 | 589 | $6K | |
| 99188 | <1% | 280 | 265 | $4K | |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | <1% | 48 | 45 | $2K |
19 more codes
| 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 | <1% | 14 | $1K |
| 85018 | <1% | 554 | $1K | |
| 83655 | <1% | 62 | $756.93 | |
| 90471 | Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine | <1% | 12 | $49.65 |
| 81003 | <1% | 26 | $40.69 | |
| 94760 | <1% | 18 | $22.09 | |
| 90633 | 0% | 144 | $0.00 | |
| 90700 | 0% | 28 | $0.00 | |
| 90670 | 0% | 544 | $0.00 | |
| 99173 | 0% | 14 | $0.00 | |
| 90707 | 0% | 16 | $0.00 | |
| 90723 | 0% | 425 | $0.00 | |
| 90647 | 0% | 416 | $0.00 | |
| 90680 | 0% | 483 | $0.00 | |
| 90686 | 0% | 127 | $0.00 | |
| 90677 | 0% | 316 | $0.00 | |
| 90716 | 0% | 62 | $0.00 | |
| 90688 | 0% | 108 | $0.00 | |
| 90656 | 0% | 30 | $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 officialMEINKE, KENNETH (PAYER CREDENTIALING SPECIALIST)
Parent organizationSPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES DISTRICT, INC.
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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.