Merit Home Health Care, INC.

Merit Home Health Care, INC. was paid $749K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2021, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is S5150, respite care, billed per 15 minutes — 73% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMERIT HOME HEALTH CARE, INC.
FERGUSON, MO 63135

33aNPI1679602718assigned 03/05/2007

33bProvider typeHome Health Agency

28Total paid$749K

24GClaims26,042

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2021

Compared with peers

Next to other Home Health Agency providers in Missouri

Rank by total paid#360 of 572

Median peer was paid$1.41M

This provider vs. median0.5×

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	9,825	$260K
2019	8,107	$237K
2020	7,143	$221K
2021	967	$30K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
S5150	Respite care, billed per 15 minutesUnskilled respite care, not hospice; per 15 minutes	73%	16,474	819	$550K
S5130	Homemaker services, billed per 15 minutesHomemaker service, nos; per 15 minutes	27%	9,568	634	$199K

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 officialSARTINI, PATRICIA (OWNER)