HOSPITAL · CCN 420043
CHEROKEE MEDICAL CENTER
Physician affiliations & referral network
GAFFNEY, SCFY 2025
Affiliated physicians
161
External referring physicians
1,074
Top affiliated specialty
Emergency Medicine
Shared beneficiaries (top referrers)
31,347
SPECIALTY MIX
Specialties among affiliated physicians
24
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AFFILIATED PHYSICIANS
Physicians affiliated with CHEROKEE MEDICAL CENTER (161 total)
From CMS Physician-Facility Affiliations. Showing the first 50 of 161.
REFERRAL NETWORK
Who refers patients here
External physicians who share patients into this hospital's affiliated providers, ranked by shared Medicare beneficiaries.
| Referring physician | Specialty | Shared beneficiaries |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Enright | Diagnostic Radiology | 3,478 |
| ST FRANCIS HEALTH LLC | — | 3,113 |
| PARNES, NEIL | — | 2,587 |
| KAVANAGH, JOSEPH | — | 2,525 |
| KURKJIAN, JOSEPH | — | 2,056 |
| WARREN, LAWRENCE | — | 1,399 |
| Joan Burkhardt | Diagnostic Radiology | 1,384 |
| James Haswell | Diagnostic Radiology | 1,337 |
| GAFFNEY HMA LLC | — | 1,325 |
| Rajinder Chhokar | Cardiology | 1,052 |
| Barry Lazenby | Diagnostic Radiology | 1,038 |
| MACHESKI, WILLIAM | — | 905 |
| DLP RUTHERFORD REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM, LLC | — | 883 |
| Kristen Nawabi | Cardiology | 850 |
| Stephen Muehlenbein | Diagnostic Radiology | 850 |
| Paul Kountz | Diagnostic Radiology | 848 |
| RYAN, FORREST | — | 782 |
| Kofi Appiah | Nephrology | 708 |
| STORY, JAMES | — | 690 |
| DIALYSIS CLINIC INC | — | 610 |
| Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings | Clinical Laboratory | 609 |
| American Health S, Llc | Clinical Laboratory | 598 |
| Ambu-Star, Inc. | Ambulance Service Provider | 595 |
| ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL, INC. | — | 572 |
| UPSTATE CAROLINA EMS INC | — | 553 |
Source: CMS Physician Shared Patient Patterns (30-day window, Medicare FFS). A directional edge is a proxy for referral, not a documented referral; pairs below 11 shared beneficiaries are suppressed.
CASE MIX
Top procedures by volume
Highest-volume MS-DRGs from CMS inpatient claims (latest reporting year per code).
| MS-DRG | Discharges |
|---|---|
| 871SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITH MCC | 28 |
| 690KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 25 |
| 291HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 23 |
| 193SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 21 |
| 177RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 20 |
| 683RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 15 |
CROSS-REFERENCE