S.T.E.P's Developmental Academy, INC.
S.T.E.P's Developmental Academy, INC. was paid $25.04M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is T2013, Habilitation, educational, waiver; per hour — 43% of everything it billed.
CHARLOTTE, NC 28208
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in North Carolina
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.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 30,898 | $3.06M | |
| 2019 | 28,522 | $2.83M | |
| 2020 | 23,032 | $2.73M | |
| 2021 | 23,107 | $2.85M | |
| 2022 | 27,838 | $3.59M | |
| 2023 | 37,803 | $4.99M | |
| 2024incomplete | 32,772 | $4.99M |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T2013 | Habilitation, educational, waiver; per hour | 43% | 68,415 | 2,854 | $10.79M |
| T2021 | Day program for adults with developmental disabilities, per 15 minutesDay habilitation, waiver; per 15 minutes | 22% | 51,484 | 2,120 | $5.43M |
| T2012 | Habilitation, educational; waiver, per diem | 17% | 23,940 | 797 | $4.21M |
| S5150 | Respite care, billed per 15 minutesUnskilled respite care, not hospice; per 15 minutes | 6.1% | 20,298 | 2,096 | $1.53M |
| H2017 | Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes | 4.6% | 18,430 | 1,366 | $1.14M |
| H2015 | Community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutesComprehensive community support services, per 15 minutes | 4.4% | 11,780 | 637 | $1.11M |
| 90837 | Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient | 2.3% | 8,424 | 3,033 | $570K |
| H2022 | Community-based wrap-around services, per diem | <1% | 872 | 81 | $205K |
| T2013TF | <1% | 255 | 22 | $44K | |
| T1016 | Case management, each 15 minutes | <1% | 45 | 12 | $3K |
| 98968 | <1% | 29 | 21 | $1K |
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.
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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.