Desire Care, LLC

Desire Care, LLC was paid $6.49M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 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 infoDESIRE CARE, LLC
METAIRIE, LA 70002

33aNPI1366954786assigned 10/25/2017

33bProvider typeHome Health Agency

28Total paid$6.49M

24GClaims46,749

24DCodes billed1

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Home Health Agency providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#51 of 263

Median peer was paid$1.33M

This provider vs. median4.9×

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

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	6,412	$747K
2019	6,547	$848K
2020	6,414	$766K
2021	5,825	$829K
2022	6,885	$1.07M
2023	7,746	$1.17M
2024incomplete	6,920	$1.05M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
S5125	Attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutesAttendant care services; per 15 minutes	100%	46,749	1,564	$6.49M

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 officialORIANO, DOUGLAS (PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR)

Same official

Other billing entities under ORIANO, DOUGLAS

Full network →

Provider	Location	Paid
Desire Care, LLC	Metairie, LA	$1.33M

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