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Thunder Bay Community Health Service, INC

Thunder Bay Community Health Service, INC was paid $90K by Medicaid between Oct 2019 and Jan 2023, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is G0470, Federally qualified health center (fqhc) visit, mental health, established patient; a medically-necessary, face-to-face mental health encounter (one-on-one) between an established patient and a fqhc practitioner during which time one or more fqhc services are rendered and includes a typical bundle of medicare-covered services that would be furnished per diem to a patient receiving a mental health visit — 88% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTHUNDER BAY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICE, INC
HALE, MI 48739
33aNPI1952960197assigned 06/11/2019
28Total paid$90K
24GClaims1,970
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthOct 2019 – Jan 2023
Compared with peers

Next to other Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) providers in Michigan

Rank by total paid#188 of 241
Median peer was paid$477K
This provider vs. median0.2×

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 BATES, RICHARD controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$2.0K$4.0K$6.0K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
2019227$6K
2020420$24K
2021452$24K
2022763$32K
2023108$5K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
G0470 Federally qualified health center (fqhc) visit, mental health, established patient; a medically-necessary, face-to-face mental health encounter (one-on-one) between an established patient and a fqhc practitioner during which time one or more fqhc services are rendered and includes a typical bundle of medicare-covered services that would be furnished per diem to a patient receiving a mental health visit 88% 1,226 597 $79K
90832 Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient 6.5% 440 283 $6K
90834 Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient 5.4% 290 180 $5K
90791 Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation <1% 14 14 $525.30

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 officialBATES, RICHARD (INTERIM CEO)
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