Agency
A Friend in Need Home Care LLC
A Friend in Need Home Care LLC was paid $3.09M by Medicaid between Oct 2020 and Nov 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is T1019, help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutes — 91% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoA FRIEND IN NEED HOME CARE LLC
EXMORE, VA 23350
EXMORE, VA 23350
33aNPI1033672217assigned 04/13/2019
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$3.09M
24GClaims36,498
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthOct 2020 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Virginia
Rank by total paid#197 of 565
Median peer was paid$1.46M
This provider vs. median2.1×
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.
Single-Code Concentration91% of spending on code T1019 with only 3 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1,879 | $25K | |
| 2021 | 5,378 | $356K | |
| 2022 | 9,130 | $815K | |
| 2023 | 10,639 | $994K | |
| 2024incomplete | 9,472 | $895K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1019 | Help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutesPersonal care services, per 15 minutes, not for an inpatient or resident of a hospital, nursing facility, icf/mr or imd, part of the individualized plan of treatment (code may not be used to identify services provided by home health aide or certified nurse assistant) | 91% | 31,653 | 1,464 | $2.82M |
| T1005 | Respite care services, up to 15 minutes | 8.0% | 4,820 | 466 | $246K |
| G2021 | Health care practitioners rendering treatment in place (tip) | <1% | 25 | 17 | $18K |
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 officialLYONS, BRENDA (OWNER)