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First Choice Childrens Homecare LP

First Choice Childrens Homecare LP was paid $29.62M by Medicaid between Jul 2019 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is T1000, Private duty / independent nursing service(s) - licensed, up to 15 minutes — 93% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFIRST CHOICE CHILDRENS HOMECARE LP
AUSTIN, TX 78731
33aNPI1548240831assigned 01/20/2006
33bProvider typeNursing Care Agency
28Total paid$29.62M
24GClaims85,011
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJul 2019 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Nursing Care Agency providers in Texas

Rank by total paid#23 of 162
Median peer was paid$5.72M
This provider vs. median5.2×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official BUCKHALTER, MATTHEW controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$500K$1.0M2018201920202021202220232024
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
2019237$93K
20206,727$2.47M
202128,947$10.42M
202222,596$8.42M
202316,736$6.00M
2024incomplete9,768$2.20M
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
T1000 Private duty / independent nursing service(s) - licensed, up to 15 minutes 93% 63,888 2,870 $27.61M
97530 Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes 2.2% 7,744 1,426 $658K
97110 Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion 1.9% 6,978 1,246 $551K
92507 Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder 1.4% 4,179 814 $417K
H2015 Community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutesComprehensive community support services, per 15 minutes 1.1% 1,615 333 $317K
G0299 Direct skilled nursing services of a registered nurse (rn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes <1% 398 126 $35K
92526 <1% 209 50 $25K

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 officialBUCKHALTER, MATTHEW (CFO)
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