Agency
Desert Sands Unified School District
Desert Sands Unified School District was paid $4.52M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 19 billing codes. Its largest line is 92508, Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder — 35% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDESERT SANDS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
LA QUINTA, CA 92253
LA QUINTA, CA 92253
33aNPI1548303407assigned 02/14/2007
33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)
28Total paid$4.52M
24GClaims157,938
24DCodes billed19
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in California
Rank by total paid#28 of 559
Median peer was paid$475K
This provider vs. median9.5×
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 | 25,687 | $670K | |
| 2019 | 23,308 | $577K | |
| 2020 | 12,436 | $440K | |
| 2021 | 21,380 | $716K | |
| 2022 | 22,181 | $658K | |
| 2023 | 30,624 | $832K | |
| 2024incomplete | 22,322 | $625K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92508 | Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 35% | 111,363 | 41,846 | $1.57M |
| 96130 | 27% | 4,236 | 4,217 | $1.22M | |
| 92523 | 8.9% | 9,929 | 9,024 | $404K | |
| T1001 | Nursing assessment / evaluation | 8.0% | 4,541 | 4,362 | $359K |
| 96101 | 5.4% | 1,034 | 835 | $242K | |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 4.8% | 5,597 | 2,860 | $219K |
| 97110 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion | 3.1% | 3,605 | 2,137 | $139K |
| 96158 | 2.4% | 2,268 | 1,097 | $111K | |
| 92521 | 2.1% | 3,738 | 3,572 | $97K | |
| 97150 | Therapeutic procedure(s), group (2 or more individuals) | <1% | 3,494 | 2,097 | $41K |
| 97167 | <1% | 229 | 229 | $31K | |
| 92522 | <1% | 1,696 | 1,468 | $30K |
7 more codes
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 officialPALUMBO, BENTON (MAA COORDINATOR)