Agency
Buffalo Public Schools
Buffalo Public Schools was paid $18.27M by Medicaid between Sep 2018 and Aug 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is 97530, Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes — 59% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBUFFALO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
BUFFALO, NY 14202
BUFFALO, NY 14202
33aNPI1508919465assigned 01/22/2007
33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)
28Total paid$18.27M
24GClaims364,740
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthSep 2018 – Aug 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in New York
Rank by total paid#5 of 516
Median peer was paid$201K
This provider vs. median91×
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 | 374 | $27K | |
| 2019 | 53,493 | $2.38M | |
| 2020 | 53,833 | $2.66M | |
| 2021 | 68,448 | $3.36M | |
| 2022 | 71,704 | $3.62M | |
| 2023 | 79,058 | $4.13M | |
| 2024incomplete | 37,830 | $2.10M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 59% | 148,342 | 36,551 | $10.74M |
| 92508 | Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 19% | 142,469 | 36,222 | $3.49M |
| 97110 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion | 9.4% | 28,905 | 10,456 | $1.73M |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 8.5% | 18,579 | 5,629 | $1.56M |
| T2003 | Non-emergency transportation, per tripNon-emergency transportation; encounter/trip | 1.1% | 8,033 | 1,357 | $198K |
| 97150 | Therapeutic procedure(s), group (2 or more individuals) | 1.0% | 10,153 | 4,650 | $186K |
| 97535 | Self-care/home management training, each 15 minutes | <1% | 1,625 | 783 | $100K |
| 97532 | <1% | 1,953 | 626 | $90K | |
| 97533 | <1% | 2,140 | 1,001 | $79K | |
| 97116 | <1% | 1,862 | 991 | $75K | |
| 97112 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; neuromuscular reeducation of movement, balance, coordination | <1% | 679 | 271 | $35K |
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 officialBLUMLEIN, NINA (DIRECTOR OF REVENUE)