Supplier
Advocate Home Care Products INC
Advocate Home Care Products INC was paid $5.39M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 16 billing codes. Its largest line is B4035, Enteral feeding supply kit; pump fed, per day, includes but not limited to feeding/flushing syringe, administration set tubing, dressings, tape — 46% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoADVOCATE HOME CARE PRODUCTS INC
DOWNERS GROVE, IL 60515
DOWNERS GROVE, IL 60515
33aNPI1245207380assigned 03/08/2006
33bProvider typeHome Infusion Therapy Pharmacy
28Total paid$5.39M
24GClaims25,491
24DCodes billed16
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#2 of 9
Median peer was paid$44K
This provider vs. median121×
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.
Entity ProliferationAuthorized official RICHARDSON, KARA controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
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 | 2,347 | $520K | |
| 2019 | 2,743 | $576K | |
| 2020 | 3,960 | $879K | |
| 2021 | 3,885 | $1.02M | |
| 2022 | 3,581 | $869K | |
| 2023 | 4,820 | $782K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,155 | $740K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B4035 | Enteral feeding supply kit; pump fed, per day, includes but not limited to feeding/flushing syringe, administration set tubing, dressings, tape | 46% | 9,266 | 8,516 | $2.46M |
| B4161 | Enteral formula, for pediatrics, hydrolyzed/amino acids and peptide chain proteins, includes fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, may include fiber, administered through an enteral feeding tube, 100 calories = 1 unit | 19% | 1,342 | 1,164 | $1.00M |
| B4160 | Enteral formula, for pediatrics, nutritionally complete calorically dense (equal to or greater than 0.7 kcal/ml) with intact nutrients, includes proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, may include fiber, administered through an enteral feeding tube, 100 calories = 1 unit | 14% | 2,321 | 2,066 | $776K |
| B4149 | Enteral formula, manufactured blenderized natural foods with intact nutrients, includes proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, may include fiber, administered through an enteral feeding tube, 100 calories = 1 unit | 7.0% | 1,317 | 1,006 | $376K |
| B4088 | Gastrostomy/jejunostomy tube, low-profile, any material, any type, each | 4.1% | 1,755 | 1,670 | $223K |
| S9500 | Home infusion therapy, antibiotic, antiviral, or antifungal therapy; once every 24 hours; administrative services, professional pharmacy services, care coordination, and all necessary supplies and equipment (drugs and nursing visits coded separately), per diem | 3.2% | 3,382 | 1,387 | $174K |
| S5501 | Home infusion therapy, catheter care / maintenance, complex (more than one lumen), includes administrative services, professional pharmacy services, care coordination, and all necessary supplies and equipment (drugs and nursing visits coded separately), per diem | 1.8% | 2,300 | 1,051 | $95K |
| B4034 | Enteral feeding supply kit; syringe fed, per day, includes but not limited to feeding/flushing syringe, administration set tubing, dressings, tape | 1.7% | 945 | 874 | $91K |
| B9002 | Enteral nutrition infusion pump, any type | 1.7% | 1,191 | 1,141 | $90K |
| B4152 | Enteral formula, nutritionally complete, calorically dense (equal to or greater than 1.5 kcal/ml) with intact nutrients, includes proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, may include fiber, administered through an enteral feeding tube, 100 calories = 1 unit | 1.2% | 546 | 485 | $65K |
| A4222 | Infusion supplies for external drug infusion pump, per cassette or bag (list drugs separately) | <1% | 87 | 31 | $15K |
| E0776 | Iv pole | <1% | 669 | 654 | $5K |
4 more codes
| B4150 | Enteral formula, nutritionally complete with intact nutrients, includes proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, may include fiber, administered through an enteral feeding tube, 100 calories = 1 unit | <1% | 45 | $5K |
| B4154 | Enteral formula, nutritionally complete, for special metabolic needs, excludes inherited disease of metabolism, includes altered composition of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and/or minerals, may include fiber, administered through an enteral feeding tube, 100 calories = 1 unit | <1% | 12 | $3K |
| A4221 | Supplies for maintenance of non-insulin drug infusion catheter, per week (list drugs separately) | <1% | 119 | $3K |
| B4082 | Nasogastric tubing without stylet | <1% | 194 | $3K |
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 officialRICHARDSON, KARA (VP MANAGED HEALTH)
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.