Agency
Vanguard Academy
Vanguard Academy was paid $372K by Medicaid between Oct 2021 and May 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is T1019, help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutes — 94% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoVANGUARD ACADEMY
PHARR, TX 78577
PHARR, TX 78577
33aNPI1184283731assigned 06/07/2019
33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)
28Total paid$372K
24GClaims14,606
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthOct 2021 – May 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#413 of 752
Median peer was paid$463K
This provider vs. median0.8×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 992 | $27K | |
| 2022 | 3,716 | $107K | |
| 2023 | 5,967 | $160K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,931 | $79K |
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) | 94% | 10,674 | 754 | $349K |
| 92508 | Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 3.1% | 3,160 | 1,471 | $12K |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 2.7% | 577 | 359 | $10K |
| 97150 | Therapeutic procedure(s), group (2 or more individuals) | <1% | 195 | 136 | $1K |
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 officialCANTU, MICHAEL (DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EDUCATION)