Agency
A Step Forward, INC.
A Step Forward, INC. was paid $171K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is T2016, a day of residential support for a person with a developmental disability — 91% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoA STEP FORWARD, INC.
BATON ROUGE, LA 70817
BATON ROUGE, LA 70817
33aNPI1114062916assigned 02/20/2007
33bProvider typeDevelopmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency
28Total paid$171K
24GClaims12,455
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Developmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#156 of 196
Median peer was paid$1.12M
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2,543 | $30K | |
| 2019 | 4,587 | $66K | |
| 2020 | 905 | $13K | |
| 2021 | 292 | $6K | |
| 2022 | 994 | $20K | |
| 2023 | 1,871 | $24K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,263 | $13K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T2016 | A day of residential support for a person with a developmental disabilityHabilitation, residential, waiver; per diem | 91% | 11,149 | 447 | $156K |
| S5136 | Companion care, adult (e.g., iadl/adl); per diem | 9.2% | 1,306 | 36 | $16K |
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 officialBARNEY, CHARLES (ADMIN)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| A Step Forward, INC. | Baton Rouge, LA | $9.33M |
| A Step Forward, INC. | Baton Rouge, LA | $1.28M |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.