Agency
Friendly Care, INC.
Friendly Care, INC. was paid $4.69M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is S5131, Homemaker service, nos; per diem — 57% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFRIENDLY CARE, INC.
ALLSTON, MA 02134
ALLSTON, MA 02134
33aNPI1275972408assigned 06/20/2013
33bProvider typeHome Health Agency
28Total paid$4.69M
24GClaims7,212
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Home Health Agency providers in Massachusetts
Rank by total paid#122 of 299
Median peer was paid$2.39M
This provider vs. median2.0×
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.
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 | 1,706 | $461K | |
| 2019 | 696 | $483K | |
| 2020 | 618 | $419K | |
| 2021 | 846 | $603K | |
| 2022 | 911 | $668K | |
| 2023 | 1,373 | $1.07M | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,062 | $988K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S5131 | Homemaker service, nos; per diem | 57% | 2,133 | 2,012 | $2.68M |
| S5130 | Homemaker services, billed per 15 minutesHomemaker service, nos; per 15 minutes | 42% | 4,764 | 3,860 | $1.98M |
| 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) | <1% | 315 | 51 | $35K |
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 officialYABLONOVSKY, BORIS (PRESIDENT)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Art of Care, INC. | Allston, MA | $1.94M |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.