Agency
First Quality Home Care , INC
First Quality Home Care , INC was paid $7.71M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is T1019, help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutes — 41% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFIRST QUALITY HOME CARE , INC
DORAL, FL 33172
DORAL, FL 33172
33aNPI1295791887assigned 04/24/2006
33bProvider typeHome Health Agency
28Total paid$7.71M
24GClaims237,316
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Home Health Agency providers in Florida
Rank by total paid#144 of 904
Median peer was paid$933K
This provider vs. median8.3×
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 | 13,906 | $270K | |
| 2019 | 55,620 | $1.77M | |
| 2020 | 45,203 | $1.45M | |
| 2021 | 30,077 | $814K | |
| 2022 | 29,792 | $875K | |
| 2023 | 36,921 | $1.43M | |
| 2024incomplete | 25,797 | $1.11M |
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) | 41% | 93,000 | 3,894 | $3.13M |
| S5130 | Homemaker services, billed per 15 minutesHomemaker service, nos; per 15 minutes | 25% | 76,127 | 4,311 | $1.92M |
| G9002 | Coordinated care fee, maintenance rate | 16% | 8,648 | 8,464 | $1.27M |
| S5135 | Companion care, adult (e.g., iadl/adl); per 15 minutes | 11% | 26,257 | 1,413 | $810K |
| T1021 | Home health aide or certified nurse assistant, per visit | 5.5% | 30,016 | 1,179 | $425K |
| S5150 | Respite care, billed per 15 minutesUnskilled respite care, not hospice; per 15 minutes | 1.5% | 2,542 | 176 | $117K |
| 99454 | <1% | 714 | 465 | $44K | |
| 99453 | 0% | 12 | 12 | $0.00 |
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 officialCUETARA, DULCE (PRESIDENT/CEO/DON)