Agency
Massachusetts Commission for the Blind
Massachusetts Commission for the Blind was paid $35.23M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is T2016, a day of residential support for a person with a developmental disability — 96% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION FOR THE BLIND
BOSTON, MA 02116
BOSTON, MA 02116
33aNPI1659594802assigned 04/10/2007
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$35.23M
24GClaims6,941
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Massachusetts
Rank by total paid#20 of 169
Median peer was paid$1.37M
This provider vs. median26×
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 Concentration96% of spending on code T2016 with only 2 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 | 1,956 | $7.85M | |
| 2019 | 1,939 | $8.02M | |
| 2020 | 1,305 | $7.53M | |
| 2021 | 1,216 | $7.24M | |
| 2022 | 404 | $3.53M | |
| 2024incomplete | 121 | $1.06M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T2016 | A day of residential support for a person with a developmental disabilityHabilitation, residential, waiver; per diem | 96% | 4,336 | 3,056 | $33.92M |
| S5100 | Day care services, adult; per 15 minutes | 3.7% | 2,605 | 488 | $1.31M |
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 officialKESSLER, LEANARD (DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR FIN.&ADMIN.)