A Step Ahead in Pierce County
A Step Ahead in Pierce County was paid $193K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 97530, Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes — 71% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoA STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY
TACOMA, WA 98444
TACOMA, WA 98444
33aNPI1306815824assigned 03/16/2006
33bProvider typePediatric Occupational Therapist
28Total paid$193K
24GClaims3,242
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Pediatric Occupational Therapist providers in Washington
Rank by total paid#5 of 12
Median peer was paid$80K
This provider vs. median2.4×
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 | 500 | $27K | |
| 2019 | 226 | $14K | |
| 2020 | 83 | $7K | |
| 2021 | 74 | $6K | |
| 2023 | 713 | $45K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,646 | $95K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 71% | 1,957 | 1,042 | $137K |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 27% | 1,243 | 623 | $53K |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | 1.9% | 42 | 24 | $4K |
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 officialWATKINS, CANDACE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)