Agency
Chatterbugs
Chatterbugs was paid $619K by Medicaid between Jan 2019 and Oct 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 92507, Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder — 80% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHATTERBUGS
LEXINGTON, SC 29073
LEXINGTON, SC 29073
33aNPI1043794498assigned 09/21/2018
33bProvider typeHome Health Agency
28Total paid$619K
24GClaims8,921
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2019 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Home Health Agency providers in South Carolina
Rank by total paid#48 of 93
Median peer was paid$678K
This provider vs. median0.9×
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 | 1,204 | $87K | |
| 2020 | 1,263 | $100K | |
| 2021 | 2,295 | $143K | |
| 2022 | 2,183 | $164K | |
| 2023 | 1,334 | $88K | |
| 2024incomplete | 642 | $38K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 80% | 7,201 | 1,843 | $494K |
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 19% | 1,523 | 517 | $119K |
| 92609 | <1% | 124 | 28 | $5K | |
| 92526 | <1% | 73 | 25 | $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 officialFRANK, HILARY (SLP)