Agency
Howard Center INC.
Howard Center INC. was paid $10.64M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is H2016, community support for mental illness or disability, billed per day — 80% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoHOWARD CENTER INC.
SAC CITY, IA 50583
SAC CITY, IA 50583
33aNPI1396899209assigned 01/22/2007
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$10.64M
24GClaims9,333
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Iowa
Rank by total paid#31 of 134
Median peer was paid$2.44M
This provider vs. median4.4×
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 | 2,612 | $1.55M | |
| 2019 | 1,925 | $1.48M | |
| 2020 | 1,373 | $1.28M | |
| 2021 | 1,715 | $1.58M | |
| 2022 | 648 | $1.61M | |
| 2023 | 784 | $1.71M | |
| 2024incomplete | 276 | $1.43M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2016 | Community support for mental illness or disability, billed per dayComprehensive community support services, per diem | 80% | 3,391 | 1,407 | $8.46M |
| S5136 | Companion care, adult (e.g., iadl/adl); per diem | 13% | 497 | 243 | $1.42M |
| S5150 | Respite care, billed per 15 minutesUnskilled respite care, not hospice; per 15 minutes | 2.6% | 2,225 | 496 | $275K |
| H2015 | Community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutesComprehensive community support services, per 15 minutes | 1.8% | 368 | 320 | $192K |
| T2021 | Day program for adults with developmental disabilities, per 15 minutesDay habilitation, waiver; per 15 minutes | 1.5% | 1,147 | 485 | $160K |
| T2020 | Day habilitation, waiver; per diem | <1% | 945 | 294 | $80K |
| S5125 | Attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutesAttendant care services; per 15 minutes | <1% | 760 | 61 | $52K |
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 officialWINKELMAN, JOHN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)