Agency
First Choice Home Care INC
First Choice Home Care INC was paid $28.04M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Apr 2022, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is T1020, help at home with daily living, billed per day — 68% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFIRST CHOICE HOME CARE INC
GREAT NECK, NY 11021
GREAT NECK, NY 11021
33aNPI1235297276assigned 12/04/2006
33bProvider typeHome Health Agency
28Total paid$28.04M
24GClaims117,144
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Apr 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Home Health Agency providers in New York
Rank by total paid#334 of 851
Median peer was paid$15.00M
This provider vs. median1.9×
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 | 20,676 | $4.49M | |
| 2019 | 28,771 | $6.70M | |
| 2020 | 35,683 | $8.70M | |
| 2021 | 26,658 | $6.74M | |
| 2022 | 5,356 | $1.42M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1020 | Help at home with daily living, billed per dayPersonal care services, per diem, 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) | 68% | 72,948 | 2,872 | $18.98M |
| 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) | 30% | 41,501 | 1,945 | $8.38M |
| T1022 | Contracted home health agency services, all services provided under contract, per day | 2.4% | 2,695 | 94 | $682K |
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 officialCOPELMAN, VIOLETTE (PRESIDENT)