Agency
Independent Home Care, INC
Independent Home Care, INC was paid $5.75M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is T1019, help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutes — 99% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoINDEPENDENT HOME CARE, INC
CREVE COEUR, MO 63141
CREVE COEUR, MO 63141
33aNPI1164600334assigned 02/09/2008
33bProvider typeNursing Care Agency
28Total paid$5.75M
24GClaims65,679
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Nursing Care Agency providers in Missouri
Rank by total paid#18 of 47
Median peer was paid$2.84M
This provider vs. median2.0×
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 | 10,983 | $724K | |
| 2019 | 10,256 | $677K | |
| 2020 | 11,211 | $733K | |
| 2021 | 8,622 | $670K | |
| 2022 | 9,183 | $1.00M | |
| 2023 | 8,826 | $1.06M | |
| 2024incomplete | 6,598 | $883K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1019 | Help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutesPersonal care services, per 15 minutes, not for an inpatient or resident of a hospital, nursing facility, icf/mr or imd, part of the individualized plan of treatment (code may not be used to identify services provided by home health aide or certified nurse assistant) | 99% | 64,643 | 3,102 | $5.71M |
| S5150 | Respite care, billed per 15 minutesUnskilled respite care, not hospice; per 15 minutes | <1% | 607 | 37 | $23K |
| T1001 | Nursing assessment / evaluation | <1% | 413 | 176 | $18K |
| T1028 | Assessment of home, physical and family environment, to determine suitability to meet patient's medical needs | <1% | 16 | 12 | $900.00 |
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 officialSCRUGGS, SHARLENE (PRESIDENT)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| A Better Choice Homecare, INC | Saint Louis, MO | $6.58M |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.