Agency
Erie County Health Dept - Special Needs Preschool Program
Erie County Health Dept - Special Needs Preschool Program was paid $12.46M by Medicaid between Apr 2019 and Mar 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 97530, Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes — 49% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoERIE COUNTY HEALTH DEPT - SPECIAL NEEDS PRESCHOOL PROGRAM
BUFFALO, NY 14202
BUFFALO, NY 14202
33aNPI1033262852assigned 01/18/2007
33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)
28Total paid$12.46M
24GClaims184,014
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthApr 2019 – Mar 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in New York
Rank by total paid#9 of 516
Median peer was paid$201K
This provider vs. median62×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 10,054 | $817K | |
| 2020 | 16,381 | $1.15M | |
| 2021 | 51,831 | $3.45M | |
| 2022 | 49,845 | $3.38M | |
| 2023 | 46,141 | $3.03M | |
| 2024incomplete | 9,762 | $639K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 49% | 87,471 | 17,131 | $6.04M |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 34% | 50,057 | 8,071 | $4.19M |
| 97110 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion | 11% | 24,548 | 5,866 | $1.40M |
| 97533 | 2.5% | 9,476 | 2,777 | $306K | |
| 97112 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; neuromuscular reeducation of movement, balance, coordination | 2.3% | 6,680 | 1,746 | $286K |
| 97116 | 1.1% | 4,313 | 1,371 | $139K | |
| 97535 | Self-care/home management training, each 15 minutes | <1% | 1,388 | 717 | $77K |
| 92523 | <1% | 81 | 81 | $17K |
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 officialRUFFINO, PATRICK (1ST DEPUTY COMMISSIONER)