First Steps Pediatric Therapy INC
First Steps Pediatric Therapy INC was paid $158K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2019, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 97530, Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes — 99% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFIRST STEPS PEDIATRIC THERAPY INC
CHARLOTTE, NC 28207
CHARLOTTE, NC 28207
33aNPI1588729859assigned 12/27/2006
33bProvider typePediatric Occupational Therapist
28Total paid$158K
24GClaims1,952
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2019
Compared with peers
Next to other Pediatric Occupational Therapist providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#21 of 36
Median peer was paid$207K
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.
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 | 1,638 | $132K | |
| 2019 | 314 | $25K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 99% | 1,906 | 416 | $155K |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 1.5% | 46 | 12 | $2K |
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 officialDEMELLO, ROSEMARY (PRESIDENT-CLINICAL DIRECTOR)