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A Better Option Ihs LLC

A Better Option Ihs LLC was paid $1.07M by Medicaid between Mar 2019 and Aug 2023, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is T1019, help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutes — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoA BETTER OPTION IHS LLC
FLORISSANT, MO 63033
33aNPI1508317868assigned 10/20/2016
33bProvider typeHome Health Agency
28Total paid$1.07M
24GClaims4,563
24DCodes billed1
24AFirst – last monthMar 2019 – Aug 2023
Compared with peers

Next to other Home Health Agency providers in Missouri

Rank by total paid#326 of 572
Median peer was paid$1.41M
This provider vs. median0.8×

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 T1019 with only 1 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$20K$40K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2019675$123K
20201,207$238K
20211,105$244K
20221,120$313K
2023456$149K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
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) 100% 4,563 759 $1.07M

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 officialPAYNES, SHARON (DIRECTOR)
Same official

Other billing entities under PAYNES, SHARON

Full network →
ProviderLocationPaid
A Better Option LLCFlorissant, MO$6.60M

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.