Agency
Life-Skills, INC.
Life-Skills, INC. was paid $3.35M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jun 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is H2014, Skills training and development, per 15 minutes — 57% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLIFE-SKILLS, INC.
FITCHBURG, MA 01420
FITCHBURG, MA 01420
33aNPI1396953253assigned 05/21/2007
33bProvider typeDevelopmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency
28Total paid$3.35M
24GClaims33,195
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jun 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Developmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency providers in Massachusetts
Rank by total paid#94 of 129
Median peer was paid$5.89M
This provider vs. median0.6×
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.
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 | 7,472 | $711K | |
| 2019 | 7,785 | $766K | |
| 2020 | 6,338 | $567K | |
| 2021 | 4,437 | $296K | |
| 2022 | 2,212 | $269K | |
| 2023 | 3,221 | $457K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,730 | $282K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2014 | Skills training and development, per 15 minutes | 57% | 19,647 | 1,081 | $1.91M |
| S5102 | Adult day care, billed per dayDay care services, adult; per diem | 30% | 7,163 | 469 | $1.01M |
| S5101 | Day care services, adult; per half day | 13% | 6,385 | 424 | $427K |
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 officialAMICK, JAMES (CEO)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Life-Skills, INC. | Gardner, MA | $5.26M |
| Life-Skills, INC. | Greenfield, MA | $4.30M |
| Life-Skills, INC. | Webster, MA | $3.71M |
| Life-Skills, INC. | Dudley, MA | $3.49M |
| Life-Skills, INC. | Webster, MA | $2.41M |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.