Agency
Columbus County Schools
Columbus County Schools was paid $245K by Medicaid between Oct 2019 and Mar 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 97530, Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes — 65% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCOLUMBUS COUNTY SCHOOLS
WHITEVILLE, NC 28472
WHITEVILLE, NC 28472
33aNPI1073535548assigned 07/24/2006
33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)
28Total paid$245K
24GClaims5,568
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthOct 2019 – Mar 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#79 of 101
Median peer was paid$1.03M
This provider vs. median0.2×
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 | 342 | $14K | |
| 2020 | 1,550 | $71K | |
| 2021 | 1,053 | $54K | |
| 2022 | 1,340 | $56K | |
| 2023 | 1,148 | $46K | |
| 2024incomplete | 135 | $5K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 65% | 3,291 | 1,209 | $160K |
| 97150 | Therapeutic procedure(s), group (2 or more individuals) | 20% | 952 | 404 | $49K |
| 92508 | Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 12% | 1,210 | 452 | $29K |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 3.1% | 115 | 39 | $8K |
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 officialSWART, DEAN (DIRECTOR OF EXC CHILDREN SERVICES)