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Southern Ingenuity INC

Southern Ingenuity INC was paid $3.98M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is T1019, help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutes — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSOUTHERN INGENUITY INC
HOMER, LA 71040
33aNPI1386856680assigned 05/07/2007
28Total paid$3.98M
24GClaims57,790
24DCodes billed1
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Developmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#47 of 196
Median peer was paid$1.12M
This provider vs. median3.6×

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 T1019 with only 1 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$25K$50K$75K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
201811,484$558K
201910,295$664K
20208,646$537K
20217,948$538K
20226,541$551K
20236,762$591K
2024incomplete6,114$542K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
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) 100% 57,790 2,705 $3.98M

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 officialSHEPHERD, ELLEN (PRESIDENT)
Same official

Other billing entities under SHEPHERD, ELLEN

Full network →
ProviderLocationPaid
Southern Ingenuity INCHomer, LA$25.82M
Southern Ingenuity INCHomer, LA$927K

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