Agency
Palmer Lutheran Health Center, INC
Palmer Lutheran Health Center, INC was paid $438K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is S5130, homemaker services, billed per 15 minutes — 45% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER, INC
WEST UNION, IA 52175
WEST UNION, IA 52175
33aNPI1174572481assigned 05/06/2006
33bProvider typeHome Health Agency
28Total paid$438K
24GClaims12,799
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Home Health Agency providers in Iowa
Rank by total paid#45 of 137
Median peer was paid$169K
This provider vs. median2.6×
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 | 271 | $30K | |
| 2019 | 479 | $46K | |
| 2020 | 575 | $54K | |
| 2021 | 1,311 | $28K | |
| 2022 | 1,192 | $22K | |
| 2023 | 941 | $22K | |
| 2024incomplete | 8,030 | $236K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S5130 | Homemaker services, billed per 15 minutesHomemaker service, nos; per 15 minutes | 45% | 5,558 | 2,033 | $196K |
| G0299 | Direct skilled nursing services of a registered nurse (rn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 28% | 2,071 | 467 | $123K |
| G0156 | Services of home health/hospice aide in home health or hospice settings, each 15 minutes | 27% | 5,170 | 303 | $119K |
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 officialKUENNEN, PATRICE (CEO)
Parent organizationGUNDERSEN LUTHERAN HEALTH SYSTEM
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Palmer Lutheran Health Center, INC | West Union, IA | $5.98M |
| Palmer Lutheran Health Center, INC. | Postville, IA | $3.54M |
| Palmer Lutheran Health Center, INC. | Fayette, IA | $653K |
| Palmer Lutheran Health Center, INC. | West Union, IA | $389K |
| Palmer Lutheran Health Center, INC | West Union, IA | $130K |
| Palmer Lutheran Health Center, INC. | West Union, IA | $66K |
| Palmer Lutheran Health Center, INC | Oelwein, IA | $33K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.