Agency
First Choice Home Health of Ohio INC
First Choice Home Health of Ohio INC was paid $16.98M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is T1019, help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutes — 57% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFIRST CHOICE HOME HEALTH OF OHIO INC
CLEVELAND, OH 44107
CLEVELAND, OH 44107
33aNPI1366518235assigned 11/24/2006
33bProvider typeHome Health Agency
28Total paid$16.98M
24GClaims317,295
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Home Health Agency providers in Ohio
Rank by total paid#65 of 915
Median peer was paid$1.83M
This provider vs. median9.3×
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 | 63,450 | $3.48M | |
| 2019 | 58,384 | $3.11M | |
| 2020 | 60,714 | $3.13M | |
| 2021 | 51,129 | $2.77M | |
| 2022 | 35,593 | $2.07M | |
| 2023 | 30,128 | $1.03M | |
| 2024incomplete | 17,897 | $1.40M |
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) | 57% | 149,781 | 6,878 | $9.62M |
| G0299 | Direct skilled nursing services of a registered nurse (rn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 14% | 49,669 | 14,649 | $2.30M |
| G0156 | Services of home health/hospice aide in home health or hospice settings, each 15 minutes | 11% | 52,514 | 3,896 | $1.86M |
| G0300 | Direct skilled nursing services of a licensed practical nurse (lpn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 8.7% | 37,616 | 6,616 | $1.47M |
| G0151 | Services performed by a qualified physical therapist in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 6.9% | 18,178 | 4,507 | $1.17M |
| G0152 | Services performed by a qualified occupational therapist in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 3.2% | 8,806 | 2,501 | $544K |
| T1001 | Nursing assessment / evaluation | <1% | 731 | 580 | $22K |
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 officialSTERBEN, CHRISTOPHER (OWNER)
Parent organizationFIRST CHOICE HOME HEALTH OF OHIO INC