Southwest Louisiana Independence Center, INC

Southwest Louisiana Independence Center, INC was paid $14.42M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is S5125, attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutes — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INDEPENDENCE CENTER, INC
LAKE CHARLES, LA 70605

33aNPI1235265661assigned 02/27/2007

33bProvider typeCase Management Agency

28Total paid$14.42M

24GClaims104,170

24DCodes billed1

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Case Management Agency providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#7 of 125

Median peer was paid$2.07M

This provider vs. median7.0×

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.

Auditor's notes

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

Single-Code Concentration100% of spending on code S5125 with only 1 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	18,152	$1.98M
2019	14,940	$1.83M
2020	13,413	$1.70M
2021	14,312	$1.95M
2022	14,689	$2.28M
2023	15,651	$2.52M
2024incomplete	13,013	$2.16M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
S5125	Attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutesAttendant care services; per 15 minutes	100%	104,170	3,753	$14.42M

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 officialDARTEZ, RANDY (EXECTUIVE DIRECTOR)

Same official

Other billing entities under DARTEZ, RANDY

Full network →

Provider	Location	Paid
Southwest Louisiana Independence Center INC.	Lafayette, LA	$6.84M
Southwest Louisiana Independence Center, INC.	Lake Charles, LA	$3.37M
Southwest Louisiana Independence Center INC	Lake Charles, LA	$2.45M
Southwest Louisiana Independence Center, INC.	Lafayette, LA	$1.49M
Southwest Louisiana Independence Center INC.	Lafayette, LA	$931K
Southwest Louisiana Independence Center INC.	Lake Charles, LA	$586K
Southwest Louisiana Independence Center, INC	Lake Charles, LA	$571K

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.