Independent School District #656

Independent School District #656 was paid $5.43M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is T1018, School-based individualized education program (iep) services, bundled — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoINDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT #656
FARIBAULT, MN 55021

33aNPI1376638353assigned 10/04/2006

33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)

28Total paid$5.43M

24GClaims101,657

24DCodes billed1

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in Minnesota

Rank by total paid#27 of 395

Median peer was paid$371K

This provider vs. median15×

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 T1018 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	16,940	$877K
2019	17,901	$937K
2020	10,169	$519K
2021	17,374	$962K
2022	25,159	$1.35M
2023	12,895	$745K
2024incomplete	1,219	$46K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
T1018	School-based individualized education program (iep) services, bundled	100%	101,657	8,545	$5.43M

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 officialARNOTT, LORA (DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL SERVICES)