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Merakey Childrens Services

Merakey Childrens Services was paid $10.95M by Medicaid between Mar 2020 and Dec 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is T1017, case management, billed per 15 minutes — 34% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMERAKEY CHILDRENS SERVICES
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19119
33aNPI1578865580assigned 11/23/2010
28Total paid$10.95M
24GClaims89,693
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthMar 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Pennsylvania

Rank by total paid#52 of 517
Median peer was paid$1.23M
This provider vs. median8.9×

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 TILSON, NORMAN controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$200K$400K$600K2018201920202021202220232024
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
20201,910$3K
202121,712$526.50
202226,478$2.13M
202321,025$3.92M
2024incomplete18,568$4.90M
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
T1017 Case management, billed per 15 minutesTargeted case management, each 15 minutes 34% 28,946 10,585 $3.73M
H0032 Mental health service plan development by non-physician 27% 24,209 5,596 $2.93M
H2021 Community-based wrap-around services, per 15 minutes 22% 22,829 2,698 $2.46M
H2019 Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes 17% 13,579 3,118 $1.82M
90791 Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation <1% 130 121 $14K

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 officialTILSON, NORMAN (CORP SR. DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS OPS)
Same official

Other billing entities under TILSON, NORMAN

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ProviderLocationPaid
Merakey AllosRichmond, VA$22.48M
Merakey PennsylvaniaHuntingdon, PA$17.43M
Merakey PennsylvaniaHarrisburg, PA$13.08M
Merakey Parkside RecoveryPhiladelphia, PA$11.85M
Merakey Parkside RecoveryPhiladelphia, PA$6.05M
Merakey PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$5.10M
Merakey Montgomery CountyColmar, PA$5.03M
Merakey Montgomery CountyLansdale, PA$5.02M
Merakey Delaware CountySharon Hill, PA$4.99M
Merakey PennsylvaniaStroudsburg, PA$4.80M
Merakey PennsylvaniaStroudsburg, PA$4.06M
Merakey PennsylvaniaBethlehem, PA$4.01M
Merakey Montgomery CountyLansdale, PA$3.86M
Merakey Bucks CountyWarminster, PA$3.63M
Merakey Bucks CountyWarminster, PA$2.89M
NHS Stevens CenterCarlisle, PA$2.86M
Merakey Delaware CountySharon Hill, PA$2.77M
Merakey PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$2.63M
Merakey Childrens ServicesPhiladelphia, PA$2.13M
Merakey Chester CountyKennett Square, PA$1.96M

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