Agency
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Blue Ridge INC
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Blue Ridge INC was paid $14.06M by Medicaid between Nov 2018 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is S5125, attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutes — 74% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE BLUE RIDGE INC
SPRUCE PINE, NC 28777
SPRUCE PINE, NC 28777
33aNPI1023084399assigned 02/27/2006
33bProvider typeCommunity Based Hospice Care Agency
28Total paid$14.06M
24GClaims105,968
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthNov 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community Based Hospice Care Agency providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#1 of 16
Median peer was paid$224K
This provider vs. median63×
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.
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3,190 | $200K | |
| 2019 | 23,739 | $1.69M | |
| 2020 | 20,074 | $2.65M | |
| 2021 | 16,796 | $2.44M | |
| 2022 | 15,597 | $2.60M | |
| 2023 | 13,846 | $2.34M | |
| 2024incomplete | 12,726 | $2.15M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S5125 | Attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutesAttendant care services; per 15 minutes | 74% | 87,046 | 4,740 | $10.41M |
| T1016 | Case management, each 15 minutes | 19% | 15,428 | 7,768 | $2.72M |
| T2041 | Supports brokerage, self-directed, waiver; per 15 minutes | 6.5% | 3,067 | 2,526 | $918K |
| T4535 | Disposable liner/shield/guard/pad/undergarment, for incontinence, each | <1% | 222 | 201 | $5K |
| A4554 | Disposable underpads, all sizes | <1% | 97 | 90 | $3K |
| T4526 | Adult sized disposable incontinence product, protective underwear/pull-on, medium size, each | <1% | 69 | 68 | $3K |
| B4150 | Enteral formula, nutritionally complete with intact nutrients, includes proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, may include fiber, administered through an enteral feeding tube, 100 calories = 1 unit | <1% | 39 | 36 | $3K |
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 officialWILLIAMS, SHEILA (CFO)
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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.