Agency
Western New York Independent Living, INC.
Western New York Independent Living, INC. was paid $184.38M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is T1019, help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutes — 100% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoWESTERN NEW YORK INDEPENDENT LIVING, INC.
BUFFALO, NY 14214
BUFFALO, NY 14214
33aNPI1427267806assigned 05/22/2007
33bProvider typeHome Health Agency
28Total paid$184.38M
24GClaims1,385,277
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Home Health Agency providers in New York
Rank by total paid#86 of 851
Median peer was paid$15.00M
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Single-Code Concentration100% of spending on code T1019 with only 3 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
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 | 184,536 | $23.95M | |
| 2019 | 221,774 | $31.29M | |
| 2020 | 223,355 | $28.14M | |
| 2021 | 205,166 | $25.76M | |
| 2022 | 184,088 | $21.36M | |
| 2023 | 197,917 | $27.99M | |
| 2024incomplete | 168,441 | $25.90M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | 100% | 1,379,438 | 81,224 | $183.69M |
| S5125 | Attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutesAttendant care services; per 15 minutes | <1% | 5,781 | 364 | $684K |
| T1022 | Contracted home health agency services, all services provided under contract, per day | 0% | 58 | 58 | $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 officialUSIAK, DOUGLAS (CEO)