Kukwa, James

Kukwa, James was paid $9.96M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is T1017, case management, billed per 15 minutes — 80% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoKUKWA, JAMES
SAINT PAUL, MN 55106

33aNPI1467881102assigned 11/04/2013

33bProvider typeSocial Worker

28Total paid$9.96M

24GClaims56,142

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Social Worker providers in Minnesota

Rank by total paid#4 of 20

Median peer was paid$162K

This provider vs. median61×

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	6,358	$1.35M
2019	8,387	$1.55M
2020	8,635	$1.59M
2021	8,169	$1.12M
2022	9,472	$1.52M
2023	9,055	$1.51M
2024incomplete	6,066	$1.32M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
T1017	Case management, billed per 15 minutesTargeted case management, each 15 minutes	80%	41,780	2,736	$8.01M
H2015	Community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutesComprehensive community support services, per 15 minutes	14%	13,738	1,612	$1.43M
T2038	Community transition, waiver; per service	5.3%	624	261	$524K

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.