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Colorado West Healthcare System

Colorado West Healthcare System was paid $626K by Medicaid between Jun 2021 and Dec 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 56% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCOLORADO WEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
GRAND JUNCTION, CO 81505
33aNPI1992479513assigned 08/06/2021
28Total paid$626K
24GClaims9,649
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJun 2021 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other General Acute Care Hospital providers in Colorado

Rank by total paid#33 of 51
Median peer was paid$1.24M
This provider vs. median0.5×

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

Paid by month

$0$20K$40K$60K2018201920202021202220232024
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
20212,682$189K
20222,267$145K
20232,864$177K
2024incomplete1,836$116K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99284 Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity 56% 4,377 4,083 $349K
99283 Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity 30% 3,858 3,716 $185K
99285 Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life 9.8% 492 428 $62K
99282 Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity 3.1% 698 651 $20K
99460 <1% 52 50 $4K
99238 Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less <1% 60 56 $3K
99233 Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m <1% 31 13 $2K
99232 Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity <1% 38 13 $2K
93010 Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only <1% 43 37 $147.60

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 officialTHOMAS, CHRISTIAN (CEO)
Same official

Other billing entities under THOMAS, CHRISTIAN

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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.