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Ambercare Hospice, INC.

Ambercare Hospice, INC. was paid $28.72M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is Q5004, Hospice care provided in skilled nursing facility (snf) — 78% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoAMBERCARE HOSPICE, INC.
ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87113
33aNPI1447228598assigned 03/14/2006
28Total paid$28.72M
24GClaims147,862
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Community Based Hospice Care Agency providers in New Mexico

Rank by total paid#1 of 17
Median peer was paid$450K
This provider vs. median64×

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.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official DIXON, HEATHER controls 19+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$250K$500K$750K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
201814,624$2.57M
201931,737$5.72M
202032,531$6.08M
202121,386$4.02M
202222,580$4.35M
202318,488$4.13M
2024incomplete6,516$1.85M
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
Q5004 Hospice care provided in skilled nursing facility (snf) 78% 113,345 3,892 $22.53M
Q5001 Hospice or home health care provided in patient's home/residence 21% 33,841 1,697 $6.03M
T2042 Hospice routine home care; per diem <1% 397 42 $165K
G0299 Direct skilled nursing services of a registered nurse (rn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes <1% 258 56 $2K
G0155 Services of clinical social worker in home health or hospice settings, each 15 minutes 0% 21 12 $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 officialDIXON, HEATHER (PRESIDENT & COO)
Same official

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