South Washington County Schools

South Washington County Schools was paid $10.61M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is T1018, School-based individualized education program (iep) services, bundled — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOLS
COTTAGE GROVE, MN 55016

33aNPI1659456614assigned 10/26/2006

33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)

28Total paid$10.61M

24GClaims253,859

24DCodes billed1

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

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

Rank by total paid#10 of 395

Median peer was paid$371K

This provider vs. median29×

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 1 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	46,500	$1.64M
2019	44,082	$1.67M
2020	17,260	$707K
2021	32,978	$1.43M
2022	56,570	$2.65M
2023	45,029	$2.19M
2024incomplete	11,440	$325K

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%	253,859	28,519	$10.61M

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 officialNELSON, TOM (SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS)