Agency
Lodestar Children's Services INC.
Lodestar Children's Services INC. was paid $4.95M by Medicaid between Sep 2019 and Nov 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is S5150, respite care, billed per 15 minutes — 43% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLODESTAR CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC.
SAYVILLE, NY 11782
SAYVILLE, NY 11782
33aNPI1053769323assigned 05/27/2016
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$4.95M
24GClaims34,583
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthSep 2019 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in New York
Rank by total paid#66 of 235
Median peer was paid$1.02M
This provider vs. median4.8×
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 | 303 | $24K | |
| 2020 | 2,432 | $208K | |
| 2021 | 4,001 | $446K | |
| 2022 | 6,645 | $995K | |
| 2023 | 11,693 | $1.85M | |
| 2024incomplete | 9,509 | $1.42M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S5150 | Respite care, billed per 15 minutesUnskilled respite care, not hospice; per 15 minutes | 43% | 10,408 | 2,778 | $2.11M |
| H2017 | Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes | 30% | 15,786 | 2,916 | $1.50M |
| H0004 | Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes | 9.9% | 3,144 | 590 | $490K |
| H2015 | Community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutesComprehensive community support services, per 15 minutes | 9.0% | 1,224 | 394 | $447K |
| H0038 | Self-help/peer services, per 15 minutes | 4.7% | 2,616 | 517 | $233K |
| H0036 | Community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutesCommunity psychiatric supportive treatment, face-to-face, per 15 minutes | 3.4% | 1,405 | 251 | $167K |
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 officialREGAN, JAMES (BOARD PRESIDENT)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmacare Health Specialists LLC | Wichita, KS | $166K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.