Agency
Nicolest Healthcare Services INC
Nicolest Healthcare Services INC was paid $1.14M by Medicaid between Sep 2020 and Nov 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is S5125, attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutes — 90% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoNICOLEST HEALTHCARE SERVICES INC
RICHMOND, TX 77407
RICHMOND, TX 77407
33aNPI1497092589assigned 01/09/2013
33bProvider typeHome Health Agency
28Total paid$1.14M
24GClaims12,989
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthSep 2020 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Home Health Agency providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#703 of 1,243
Median peer was paid$1.86M
This provider vs. median0.6×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1,177 | $53K | |
| 2021 | 3,001 | $171K | |
| 2022 | 2,069 | $236K | |
| 2023 | 2,621 | $298K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,121 | $383K |
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 | 90% | 10,695 | 661 | $1.03M |
| T1019 | Help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutesPersonal care services, per 15 minutes, not for an inpatient or resident of a hospital, nursing facility, icf/mr or imd, part of the individualized plan of treatment (code may not be used to identify services provided by home health aide or certified nurse assistant) | 10% | 2,294 | 116 | $116K |
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 officialDOUGLAS, EDWINA (ADMINISTRATOR)