Straughter, Dorothy

Straughter, Dorothy was paid $176K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Apr 2023, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 97530, Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes — 96% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSTRAUGHTER, DOROTHY
CHICAGO, IL 60643

33aNPI1154654093assigned 09/10/2009

33bProvider typeEarly Intervention Provider Agency

28Total paid$176K

24GClaims2,641

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Apr 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Early Intervention Provider Agency providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#4 of 14

Median peer was paid$37K

This provider vs. median4.8×

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	302	$12K
2020	409	$22K
2021	847	$59K
2022	779	$59K
2023	304	$23K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
97530	Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes	96%	2,408	653	$169K
99499		4.0%	233	139	$7K

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.