Agency
Merit Home Healthcare INC.
Merit Home Healthcare INC. was paid $1.98M by Medicaid between Oct 2020 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is S5125, attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutes — 100% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMERIT HOME HEALTHCARE INC.
GARLAND, TX 75042
GARLAND, TX 75042
33aNPI1437347564assigned 10/15/2007
33bProvider typeHome Health Agency
28Total paid$1.98M
24GClaims36,103
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthOct 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Home Health Agency providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#610 of 1,243
Median peer was paid$1.86M
This provider vs. median1.1×
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 S5125 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 524 | $21K | |
| 2021 | 3,896 | $109K | |
| 2022 | 8,138 | $412K | |
| 2023 | 9,601 | $535K | |
| 2024incomplete | 13,944 | $902K |
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 | 100% | 33,232 | 1,367 | $1.98M |
| Q5001 | Hospice or home health care provided in patient's home/residence | 0% | 647 | 626 | $0.00 |
| G0495 | Skilled services of a registered nurse (rn), in the training and/or education of a patient or family member, in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 0% | 2,224 | 634 | $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 officialUZOIGWE, CHUKWUMA (OWNER)