Agency
West River Hospice LLC
West River Hospice LLC was paid $6.41M by Medicaid between Jul 2018 and Jul 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is T2046, Hospice long term care, room and board only; per diem — 100% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoWEST RIVER HOSPICE LLC
NEEDHAM, MA 02494
NEEDHAM, MA 02494
33aNPI1336675263assigned 05/11/2017
33bProvider typeCommunity Based Hospice Care Agency
28Total paid$6.41M
24GClaims27,193
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJul 2018 – Jul 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community Based Hospice Care Agency providers in Massachusetts
Rank by total paid#30 of 71
Median peer was paid$4.97M
This provider vs. median1.3×
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 | 1,398 | $174K | |
| 2019 | 11,408 | $1.13M | |
| 2020 | 7,147 | $1.57M | |
| 2021 | 4,881 | $1.10M | |
| 2022 | 1,919 | $1.14M | |
| 2023 | 143 | $661K | |
| 2024incomplete | 297 | $633K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T2046 | Hospice long term care, room and board only; per diem | 100% | 8,449 | 1,317 | $6.41M |
| Q5003 | Hospice care provided in nursing long term care facility (ltc) or non-skilled nursing facility (nf) | 0% | 941 | 910 | $0.00 |
| G0156 | Services of home health/hospice aide in home health or hospice settings, each 15 minutes | 0% | 12,554 | 823 | $0.00 |
| G0299 | Direct skilled nursing services of a registered nurse (rn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 0% | 3,772 | 951 | $0.00 |
| G0155 | Services of clinical social worker in home health or hospice settings, each 15 minutes | 0% | 1,266 | 812 | $0.00 |
| G0300 | Direct skilled nursing services of a licensed practical nurse (lpn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 0% | 211 | 57 | $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 officialBENJAMIN, MICHAEL (EXECUTIVE VP AND CLEERK)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Benjamin MD INC | West Hills, CA | $176K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.