Agency
Life-Skills, INC.
Life-Skills, INC. was paid $3.49M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jun 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is S5102, adult day care, billed per day — 49% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLIFE-SKILLS, INC.
DUDLEY, MA 01571
DUDLEY, MA 01571
33aNPI1043428998assigned 05/21/2007
33bProvider typeDevelopmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency
28Total paid$3.49M
24GClaims31,630
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jun 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Developmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency providers in Massachusetts
Rank by total paid#92 of 129
Median peer was paid$5.89M
This provider vs. median0.6×
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 | 4,955 | $479K | |
| 2019 | 5,491 | $528K | |
| 2020 | 3,170 | $293K | |
| 2021 | 3,102 | $376K | |
| 2022 | 4,587 | $541K | |
| 2023 | 6,949 | $826K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,376 | $450K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S5102 | Adult day care, billed per dayDay care services, adult; per diem | 49% | 12,739 | 749 | $1.72M |
| H2014 | Skills training and development, per 15 minutes | 36% | 13,134 | 739 | $1.27M |
| 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) | 13% | 4,970 | 304 | $452K |
| S5101 | Day care services, adult; per half day | 1.5% | 787 | 122 | $53K |
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 officialAMICK, JAMES (CEO)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Life-Skills, INC. | Gardner, MA | $5.26M |
| Life-Skills, INC. | Greenfield, MA | $4.30M |
| Life-Skills, INC. | Webster, MA | $3.71M |
| Life-Skills, INC. | Fitchburg, MA | $3.35M |
| Life-Skills, INC. | Webster, MA | $2.41M |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.