Agency
Mena Public Schools
Mena Public Schools was paid $919K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 97530, Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes — 33% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMENA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
MENA, AR 71953
MENA, AR 71953
33aNPI1467514786assigned 12/14/2006
33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)
28Total paid$919K
24GClaims32,767
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in Arkansas
Rank by total paid#15 of 247
Median peer was paid$100K
This provider vs. median9.2×
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 | 4,706 | $112K | |
| 2019 | 5,899 | $155K | |
| 2020 | 4,733 | $133K | |
| 2021 | 5,155 | $130K | |
| 2022 | 4,696 | $139K | |
| 2023 | 4,793 | $158K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,785 | $93K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 33% | 7,089 | 1,462 | $300K |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 31% | 6,313 | 1,877 | $289K |
| 97110 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion | 17% | 3,560 | 717 | $158K |
| 92508 | Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 13% | 10,099 | 2,558 | $118K |
| 99173 | 2.8% | 2,858 | 2,858 | $26K | |
| V5008 | Hearing screening | 2.4% | 2,661 | 2,661 | $22K |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | <1% | 66 | 38 | $4K |
| 97150 | Therapeutic procedure(s), group (2 or more individuals) | <1% | 121 | 56 | $2K |
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 officialPONDER, JOHN (SUPERINTENDENT)