Agency
Gentle Hearts Home Care, INC.
Gentle Hearts Home Care, INC. was paid $3.18M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is T1019, help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutes — 83% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoGENTLE HEARTS HOME CARE, INC.
COLUMBIA, SC 29210
COLUMBIA, SC 29210
33aNPI1679695662assigned 04/03/2007
33bProvider typeNursing Care Agency
28Total paid$3.18M
24GClaims67,853
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Nursing Care Agency providers in South Carolina
Rank by total paid#19 of 39
Median peer was paid$2.91M
This provider vs. median1.1×
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 | 14,877 | $586K | |
| 2019 | 15,409 | $641K | |
| 2020 | 13,324 | $574K | |
| 2021 | 10,764 | $506K | |
| 2022 | 8,230 | $414K | |
| 2023 | 4,548 | $374K | |
| 2024incomplete | 701 | $89K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1019 | Help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutesPersonal care services, per 15 minutes, not for an inpatient or resident of a hospital, nursing facility, icf/mr or imd, part of the individualized plan of treatment (code may not be used to identify services provided by home health aide or certified nurse assistant) | 83% | 43,476 | 2,232 | $2.65M |
| S5130 | Homemaker services, billed per 15 minutesHomemaker service, nos; per 15 minutes | 17% | 24,377 | 1,380 | $532K |
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 officialSHEFFIELD, SIRCHANNIE (VICE PRESIDENT)