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Alternative Home Care Specialists, INC.

Alternative Home Care Specialists, INC. was paid $21.97M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is S5125, attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutes — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoALTERNATIVE HOME CARE SPECIALISTS, INC.
LAFAYETTE, LA 70506
33aNPI1326187287assigned 02/06/2007
33bProvider typePersonal Care Attendant
28Total paid$21.97M
24GClaims175,109
24DCodes billed1
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Personal Care Attendant providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#2 of 81
Median peer was paid$2.60M
This provider vs. median8.5×

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.

Single-Code Concentration100% of spending on code S5125 with only 1 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$200K$400K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
201832,194$3.47M
201931,771$3.75M
202029,840$3.05M
202123,904$2.92M
202220,716$3.08M
202319,839$3.11M
2024incomplete16,845$2.59M
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
S5125 Attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutesAttendant care services; per 15 minutes 100% 175,109 6,803 $21.97M

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 officialKEPHART, CARL (CEO)
Same official

Other billing entities under KEPHART, CARL

Full network →
ProviderLocationPaid
Alliance Care LLCBaton Rouge, LA$12.28M
Hometown Senior Care LLCBaton Rouge, LA$10.99M
Hometown Senior Care LLCBaton Rouge, LA$8.23M
ImpacLafayette, LA$1.53M

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.