Preferred Home Health Agency
Preferred Home Health Agency was paid $11.25M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is S5125, attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutes — 100% of everything it billed.
BUFFALO, SD 57720
Next to other Home Health Agency providers in South Dakota
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.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 975 | $1.88M | |
| 2019 | 914 | $1.77M | |
| 2020 | 734 | $1.09M | |
| 2021 | 9,551 | $1.53M | |
| 2022 | 9,238 | $1.55M | |
| 2023 | 8,955 | $1.70M | |
| 2024incomplete | 7,895 | $1.72M |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S5125 | Attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutesAttendant care services; per 15 minutes | 100% | 37,797 | 2,268 | $11.20M |
| S5130 | Homemaker services, billed per 15 minutesHomemaker service, nos; per 15 minutes | <1% | 238 | 179 | $47K |
| S5115 | Home care training, non-family; per 15 minutes | <1% | 227 | 226 | $4K |
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.
Who's on the registration
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Sutter County Superintendent of Schools | Yuba City, CA | $2.82M |
| Bruce School District | Bruce, WI | $116K |
| Brown & Associates PLLC | Spokane, WA | $34K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.