Upstate Circle of Friends

Upstate Circle of Friends was paid $2.27M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is S9445, Patient education, not otherwise classified, non-physician provider, individual, per session — 62% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoUPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
GREENVILLE, SC 29605

33aNPI1619162732assigned 09/11/2007

33bProvider typeVoluntary or Charitable Agency

28Total paid$2.27M

24GClaims68,618

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Voluntary or Charitable Agency providers in South Carolina

Rank by total paid#1 of 7

Median peer was paid$185K

This provider vs. median12×

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	9,565	$325K
2019	15,946	$535K
2020	9,389	$317K
2021	15,144	$516K
2022	7,371	$233K
2023	3,942	$126K
2024incomplete	7,261	$222K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
S9445	Patient education, not otherwise classified, non-physician provider, individual, per session	62%	33,837	3,434	$1.41M
S9446	Patient education, not otherwise classified, non-physician provider, group, per session	35%	32,648	4,650	$786K
T1023	Screening to determine the appropriateness of consideration of an individual for participation in a specified program, project or treatment protocol, per encounter	3.4%	2,133	2,080	$76K

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 officialBARKSDALE, EVELYN (PRESIDENT/CEO)