Exceptional Children Have Echo Joint Agreement

Exceptional Children Have Echo Joint Agreement was paid $5.41M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 18 billing codes. Its largest line is 92508, Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder — 38% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN HAVE ECHO JOINT AGREEMENT
SOUTH HOLLAND, IL 60473

33aNPI1235331794assigned 06/05/2007

33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)

28Total paid$5.41M

24GClaims259,397

24DCodes billed18

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#10 of 694

Median peer was paid$109K

This provider vs. median50×

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	57,210	$794K
2019	56,351	$1.20M
2020	23,363	$429K
2021	25,205	$581K
2022	32,478	$881K
2023	32,669	$813K
2024incomplete	32,121	$708K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
92508	Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder	38%	88,508	19,782	$2.05M
T1021	Home health aide or certified nurse assistant, per visit	14%	16,907	1,008	$757K
T1002	Rn services, up to 15 minutes	12%	14,987	2,635	$643K
97799		9.1%	25,639	6,871	$490K
96164		7.8%	41,358	12,331	$419K
92507	Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder	5.9%	14,672	4,679	$319K
97110	Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion	3.1%	6,244	1,982	$167K
97535	Self-care/home management training, each 15 minutes	2.9%	7,315	2,624	$155K
96153		2.4%	19,978	4,692	$130K
96158		2.0%	3,497	1,668	$111K
96165		1.1%	7,889	3,335	$60K
90832	Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient	<1%	930	547	$33K

6 more codes

96152		<1%	1,715	$28K
T1502	Administration of oral, intramuscular and/or subcutaneous medication by health care agency/professional, per visit	<1%	7,567	$20K
97150	Therapeutic procedure(s), group (2 or more individuals)	<1%	1,027	$16K
92551		<1%	675	$5K
99173		<1%	468	$2K
96159		<1%	21	$532.64

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 officialWARD-EPSTEIN, DENNICE (DIRECTOR)

Same official

Other billing entities under WARD-EPSTEIN, DENNICE

Full network →

Provider	Location	Paid
Lansing School District 158	Lansing, IL	$514K
Lincoln Elem School Dist156	Calumet City, IL	$13K

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