Special School District #1

Special School District #1 was paid $32.42M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is T1018, School-based individualized education program (iep) services, bundled — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT #1
MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55411

33aNPI1619053378assigned 10/27/2006

33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)

28Total paid$32.42M

24GClaims847,726

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in Minnesota

Rank by total paid#3 of 395

Median peer was paid$371K

This provider vs. median87×

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.

Single-Code Concentration100% of spending on code T1018 with only 3 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.

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	245,296	$6.92M
2019	180,676	$6.53M
2020	80,074	$2.62M
2021	105,560	$4.93M
2022	121,455	$5.65M
2023	84,883	$4.19M
2024incomplete	29,782	$1.57M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
T1018	School-based individualized education program (iep) services, bundled	100%	846,834	96,880	$32.26M
T2023	Targeted case management; per month	<1%	674	557	$153K
T1013	Sign language or oral interpretive services, per 15 minutes	<1%	218	124	$5K

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 officialCASEY, ANN (EXECUTIVE DIR.OF SPECIAL EDUCATION)