Agency
First Children Learning Services
First Children Learning Services was paid $3.35M by Medicaid between Jan 2022 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 97153, applied behavior analysis (autism therapy), per 15 minutes — 62% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFIRST CHILDREN LEARNING SERVICES
CHERRY HILL, NJ 08003
CHERRY HILL, NJ 08003
33aNPI1164882783assigned 02/24/2016
33bProvider typeDevelopmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency
28Total paid$3.35M
24GClaims21,104
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2022 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Developmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency providers in New Jersey
Rank by total paid#87 of 154
Median peer was paid$4.61M
This provider vs. median0.7×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4,709 | $328K | |
| 2023 | 7,687 | $1.16M | |
| 2024incomplete | 8,708 | $1.86M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97153 | Applied behavior analysis (autism therapy), per 15 minutesAdaptive behavior treatment by protocol, administered by technician, each 15 minutes | 62% | 14,115 | 1,110 | $2.09M |
| 97155 | Adaptive behavior treatment with protocol modification, administered by physician, each 15 minutes | 33% | 5,161 | 1,083 | $1.09M |
| 97151 | 3.2% | 602 | 146 | $106K | |
| 97156 | 1.7% | 1,226 | 645 | $58K |
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 officialHESS, MATTHEW (COO)