Agency
Special Care INC.
Special Care INC. was paid $5.10M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is S5125, attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutes — 62% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSPECIAL CARE INC.
KNOXVILLE, TN 37923
KNOXVILLE, TN 37923
33aNPI1417281189assigned 09/28/2009
33bProvider typeCommunity Based Hospice Care Agency
28Total paid$5.10M
24GClaims60,916
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community Based Hospice Care Agency providers in Tennessee
Rank by total paid#4 of 33
Median peer was paid$443K
This provider vs. median12×
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 | 14,317 | $953K | |
| 2019 | 10,597 | $793K | |
| 2020 | 8,842 | $717K | |
| 2021 | 9,030 | $694K | |
| 2022 | 6,815 | $647K | |
| 2023 | 6,046 | $635K | |
| 2024incomplete | 5,269 | $666K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S5125 | Attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutesAttendant care services; per 15 minutes | 62% | 30,297 | 1,431 | $3.14M |
| 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) | 37% | 29,175 | 1,506 | $1.87M |
| S5150 | Respite care, billed per 15 minutesUnskilled respite care, not hospice; per 15 minutes | 1.8% | 1,444 | 306 | $94K |
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 officialCALLOWAY-NORMAN, MARY (CEO/OWNER)