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Lutheran Family Services

Lutheran Family Services was paid $35.28M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is S5145, Foster care, therapeutic, child; per diem — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES
SALISBURY, NC 28144
33aNPI1689986226assigned 07/12/2010
33bProvider typeFoster Care Agency
28Total paid$35.28M
24GClaims255,523
24DCodes billed1
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Foster Care Agency providers in North Carolina

Rank by total paid#3 of 10
Median peer was paid$5.41M
This provider vs. median6.5×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Single-Code Concentration100% of spending on code S5145 with only 1 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$500K$1.0M2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
201834,912$3.78M
201938,843$4.11M
202039,428$4.78M
202139,116$4.87M
202238,818$4.71M
202343,377$7.99M
2024incomplete21,029$5.05M
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
S5145 Foster care, therapeutic, child; per diem 100% 255,523 8,422 $35.28M

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 officialNICKERSON, KIRBY (CFO)
Same official

Other billing entities under NICKERSON, KIRBY

Full network →
ProviderLocationPaid
Lutheran Family Services in the CarolinasColumbia, SC$7.74M
Lutheran Family Services in the CarolinasChapel Hill, NC$4.61M

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.