Always Best Care of Columbiana and Mahoning Counties

Always Best Care of Columbiana and Mahoning Counties was paid $17.89M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 2 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 infoALWAYS BEST CARE OF COLUMBIANA AND MAHONING COUNTIES
EAST LIVERPOOL, OH 43920

33aNPI1174957278assigned 08/26/2013

33bProvider typeIn Home Supportive Care Agency

28Total paid$17.89M

24GClaims263,002

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other In Home Supportive Care Agency providers in Ohio

Rank by total paid#3 of 72

Median peer was paid$755K

This provider vs. median24×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Single-Code Concentration99% of spending on code T1019 with only 2 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.

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	14,640	$1.06M
2019	14,384	$1.44M
2020	25,777	$2.12M
2021	36,883	$2.55M
2022	48,375	$2.97M
2023	58,857	$777K
2024incomplete	64,086	$6.98M

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%	256,602	15,056	$17.72M
T1001	Nursing assessment / evaluation	<1%	6,400	6,099	$170K

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 officialPUORRO, PAMELA (OWNER)