Behavioral
Care & Comfort
Care & Comfort was paid $24.73M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Apr 2022, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is T1019, help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutes — 47% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCARE & COMFORT
WATERVILLE, ME 04901
WATERVILLE, ME 04901
33aNPI1265433486assigned 08/10/2005
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$24.73M
24GClaims279,557
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Apr 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Maine
Rank by total paid#2 of 39
Median peer was paid$76K
This provider vs. median324×
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 | 73,637 | $6.22M | |
| 2019 | 56,440 | $5.69M | |
| 2020 | 67,824 | $5.98M | |
| 2021 | 68,010 | $5.65M | |
| 2022 | 13,646 | $1.19M |
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) | 47% | 149,003 | 11,171 | $11.74M |
| H2021 | Community-based wrap-around services, per 15 minutes | 18% | 28,509 | 4,014 | $4.37M |
| G0299 | Direct skilled nursing services of a registered nurse (rn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 14% | 51,822 | 20,842 | $3.52M |
| T1017 | Case management, billed per 15 minutesTargeted case management, each 15 minutes | 6.8% | 23,289 | 6,014 | $1.69M |
| H0004 | Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes | 6.2% | 17,212 | 6,177 | $1.52M |
| T2021 | Day program for adults with developmental disabilities, per 15 minutesDay habilitation, waiver; per 15 minutes | 4.3% | 6,307 | 783 | $1.07M |
| T2017 | Habilitation, residential, waiver; 15 minutes | 1.8% | 1,385 | 225 | $456K |
| T1004 | Services of a qualified nursing aide, up to 15 minutes | 1.4% | 1,816 | 176 | $348K |
| T1005 | Respite care services, up to 15 minutes | <1% | 214 | 37 | $11K |
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 officialGIGUERE, SUSAN (ADMINISTRATOR)