Agency
American Carequest, INC
American Carequest, INC was paid $29.83M by Medicaid between Nov 2018 and Nov 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is G0299, Direct skilled nursing services of a registered nurse (rn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes — 62% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoAMERICAN CAREQUEST, INC
BURLINGAME, CA 94010
BURLINGAME, CA 94010
33aNPI1417058397assigned 09/26/2006
33bProvider typeHome Health Agency
28Total paid$29.83M
24GClaims58,386
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthNov 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Home Health Agency providers in California
Rank by total paid#11 of 1,072
Median peer was paid$9K
This provider vs. median3,201×
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 | 195 | $28K | |
| 2019 | 1,806 | $227K | |
| 2020 | 4,365 | $1.59M | |
| 2021 | 9,573 | $4.33M | |
| 2022 | 12,441 | $6.41M | |
| 2023 | 17,153 | $9.72M | |
| 2024incomplete | 12,853 | $7.54M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G0299 | Direct skilled nursing services of a registered nurse (rn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 62% | 34,555 | 5,792 | $18.60M |
| G0151 | Services performed by a qualified physical therapist in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 20% | 11,931 | 3,748 | $5.87M |
| G0155 | Services of clinical social worker in home health or hospice settings, each 15 minutes | 8.5% | 4,405 | 2,115 | $2.55M |
| G0152 | Services performed by a qualified occupational therapist in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 6.4% | 3,732 | 1,813 | $1.92M |
| G0156 | Services of home health/hospice aide in home health or hospice settings, each 15 minutes | 2.9% | 3,560 | 960 | $864K |
| G0153 | Services performed by a qualified speech-language pathologist in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | <1% | 49 | 32 | $32K |
| G0300 | Direct skilled nursing services of a licensed practical nurse (lpn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | <1% | 97 | 33 | $2K |
| Q5001 | Hospice or home health care provided in patient's home/residence | 0% | 57 | 56 | $0.00 |
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 officialRISKIN, MARGARITA (ADMINISTRATOR)