Agency
Hamilton County Department of Education
Hamilton County Department of Education was paid $3.78M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 92508, Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder — 47% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoHAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
CHATTANOOGA, TN 37421
CHATTANOOGA, TN 37421
33aNPI1154637080assigned 08/30/2010
33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)
28Total paid$3.78M
24GClaims177,926
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in Tennessee
Rank by total paid#1 of 42
Median peer was paid$97K
This provider vs. median39×
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 | 33,125 | $600K | |
| 2019 | 31,358 | $729K | |
| 2020 | 12,109 | $330K | |
| 2021 | 18,446 | $497K | |
| 2022 | 19,381 | $513K | |
| 2023 | 34,271 | $658K | |
| 2024incomplete | 29,236 | $457K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92508 | Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 47% | 91,174 | 27,404 | $1.78M |
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 35% | 42,971 | 16,293 | $1.33M |
| 99211 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity | 14% | 39,129 | 3,175 | $527K |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 3.5% | 3,683 | 1,554 | $132K |
| 97150 | Therapeutic procedure(s), group (2 or more individuals) | <1% | 957 | 566 | $16K |
| Q3014 | Telehealth originating site facility fee | <1% | 12 | 12 | $348.54 |
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 officialABERNATHY, MARGARET (DIRECTOR OF EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATION)