Agency
Gentle Shepherd Hospice INC.
Gentle Shepherd Hospice INC. was paid $1K by Medicaid between Nov 2018 and Jan 2020, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is G0156, Services of home health/hospice aide in home health or hospice settings, each 15 minutes — 70% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoGENTLE SHEPHERD HOSPICE INC.
ROANOKE, VA 24019
ROANOKE, VA 24019
33aNPI1346208337assigned 05/02/2006
33bProvider typeCommunity Based Hospice Care Agency
28Total paid$1K
24GClaims699
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthNov 2018 – Jan 2020
Compared with peers
Next to other Community Based Hospice Care Agency providers in Virginia
Rank by total paid#53 of 61
Median peer was paid$43K
This provider vs. median0.0×
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 | 412 | $525.00 | |
| 2019 | 243 | $730.02 | |
| 2020 | 44 | $214.88 |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G0156 | Services of home health/hospice aide in home health or hospice settings, each 15 minutes | 70% | 296 | 37 | $1K |
| G0299 | Direct skilled nursing services of a registered nurse (rn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 30% | 384 | 65 | $434.90 |
| Q5003 | Hospice care provided in nursing long term care facility (ltc) or non-skilled nursing facility (nf) | 0% | 19 | 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 officialECKENROTH, DONALD (PRESIDENT)