Physician
Cherokee Medical Center
Cherokee Medical Center was paid $4.49M by Medicaid between Mar 2020 and Dec 2024, across 13 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 70% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHEROKEE MEDICAL CENTER
GAFFNEY, SC 29341
GAFFNEY, SC 29341
33aNPI1902447022assigned 09/30/2019
33bProvider typeFamily Medicine Physician
28Total paid$4.49M
24GClaims42,368
24DCodes billed13
24AFirst – last monthMar 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in South Carolina
Rank by total paid#6 of 696
Median peer was paid$14K
This provider vs. median310×
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 | 1,575 | $142K | |
| 2021 | 7,381 | $805K | |
| 2022 | 11,197 | $1.20M | |
| 2023 | 12,021 | $1.35M | |
| 2024incomplete | 10,194 | $990K |
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 | 70% | 26,135 | 25,775 | $3.14M |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 12% | 5,903 | 5,860 | $553K |
| T1015 | A visit at a community health center or clinic (one all-in rate)Clinic visit/encounter, all-inclusive | 8.4% | 5,491 | 5,089 | $378K |
| 87636 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus types A and B | 8.1% | 2,606 | 2,541 | $365K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | <1% | 85 | 85 | $14K |
| U0002 | 2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc | <1% | 185 | 182 | $10K |
| 87880 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A | <1% | 821 | 798 | $9K |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | <1% | 602 | 292 | $7K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 48 | 48 | $7K |
| 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% | 24 | 24 | $2K |
| 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% | 12 | 12 | $2K |
| J1100 | Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg | <1% | 336 | 323 | $257.43 |
1 more codes
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 120 | $253.84 |
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 (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER)
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.