Agency
Big Bend Hospice, INC.
Big Bend Hospice, INC. was paid $8.84M by Medicaid between Feb 2019 and Jul 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is Q5003, Hospice care provided in nursing long term care facility (ltc) or non-skilled nursing facility (nf) — 51% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBIG BEND HOSPICE, INC.
TALLAHASSEE, FL 32308
TALLAHASSEE, FL 32308
33aNPI1396746103assigned 08/02/2005
33bProvider typeCommunity Based Hospice Care Agency
28Total paid$8.84M
24GClaims55,329
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2019 – Jul 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community Based Hospice Care Agency providers in Florida
Rank by total paid#15 of 47
Median peer was paid$1.55M
This provider vs. median5.7×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 9,092 | $1.82M | |
| 2020 | 5,825 | $1.11M | |
| 2021 | 10,238 | $1.80M | |
| 2022 | 19,206 | $2.52M | |
| 2023 | 7,423 | $1.08M | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,545 | $501K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q5003 | Hospice care provided in nursing long term care facility (ltc) or non-skilled nursing facility (nf) | 51% | 34,784 | 1,193 | $4.52M |
| T2046 | Hospice long term care, room and board only; per diem | 37% | 17,835 | 718 | $3.26M |
| G0299 | Direct skilled nursing services of a registered nurse (rn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 10% | 1,616 | 301 | $902K |
| Q5001 | Hospice or home health care provided in patient's home/residence | <1% | 884 | 38 | $87K |
| T2042 | Hospice routine home care; per diem | <1% | 68 | 37 | $59K |
| G0155 | Services of clinical social worker in home health or hospice settings, each 15 minutes | <1% | 142 | 70 | $3K |
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 officialWERTMAN, WILLIAM (CEO/ADMINISTRATOR)