Agency
Caring Connections for Special Needs, LLC
Caring Connections for Special Needs, LLC was paid $7.55M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is S5150, respite care, billed per 15 minutes — 73% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCARING CONNECTIONS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS, LLC
TUCSON, AZ 85710
TUCSON, AZ 85710
33aNPI1124494240assigned 08/12/2015
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$7.55M
24GClaims201,870
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Arizona
Rank by total paid#82 of 474
Median peer was paid$1.18M
This provider vs. median6.4×
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 | 15,618 | $178K | |
| 2019 | 22,451 | $873K | |
| 2020 | 6,960 | $219K | |
| 2021 | 23,667 | $1.14M | |
| 2022 | 50,889 | $1.79M | |
| 2023 | 44,961 | $1.76M | |
| 2024incomplete | 37,324 | $1.59M |
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 | 73% | 78,755 | 12,391 | $5.55M |
| H2014 | Skills training and development, per 15 minutes | 13% | 31,528 | 8,162 | $1.01M |
| S0215 | Non-emergency transportation; mileage, per mile | 5.4% | 40,885 | 6,309 | $408K |
| A0120 | Non-emergency transportation: mini-bus, mountain area transports, or other transportation systems | 5.2% | 39,344 | 6,032 | $393K |
| T1016 | Case management, each 15 minutes | 2.0% | 8,507 | 4,272 | $154K |
| S5110 | Home care training, family; per 15 minutes | <1% | 2,235 | 984 | $22K |
| H0031 | Mental health assessment, by non-physician | <1% | 239 | 232 | $20K |
| A0100 | Non-emergency taxi ride to a medical appointmentNon-emergency transportation; taxi | <1% | 377 | 106 | $629.24 |
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 officialDWORNICKI, PAULA (QUALITY/COMPLIANCE MANAGER)