Agency
Prickly Pear Special Services Cooperative
Prickly Pear Special Services Cooperative was paid $290K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 92507, Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder — 63% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPRICKLY PEAR SPECIAL SERVICES COOPERATIVE
EAST HELENA, MT 59365
EAST HELENA, MT 59365
33aNPI1063543486assigned 03/08/2007
33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)
28Total paid$290K
24GClaims13,745
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in Montana
Rank by total paid#63 of 102
Median peer was paid$394K
This provider vs. median0.7×
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 | 3,143 | $60K | |
| 2019 | 2,854 | $51K | |
| 2020 | 1,364 | $27K | |
| 2021 | 1,520 | $38K | |
| 2022 | 1,824 | $42K | |
| 2023 | 1,530 | $35K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,510 | $37K |
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 | 63% | 5,087 | 1,937 | $183K |
| 92508 | Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 28% | 7,802 | 2,646 | $82K |
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient | 4.3% | 448 | 162 | $13K |
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 4.1% | 408 | 143 | $12K |
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 officialKAUFFMAN, VAUGHN (DIRECTOR)