Agency
Usd 446 Independence
Usd 446 Independence was paid $811K by Medicaid between Oct 2019 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 92507, Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder — 49% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoUSD 446 INDEPENDENCE
INDEPENDENCE, KS 67301
INDEPENDENCE, KS 67301
33aNPI1699908988assigned 09/02/2009
33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)
28Total paid$811K
24GClaims28,711
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthOct 2019 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in Kansas
Rank by total paid#31 of 238
Median peer was paid$118K
This provider vs. median6.9×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1,684 | $32K | |
| 2020 | 4,711 | $115K | |
| 2021 | 5,947 | $161K | |
| 2022 | 6,547 | $191K | |
| 2023 | 5,167 | $158K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,655 | $154K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 49% | 8,651 | 3,488 | $396K |
| 92508 | Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 35% | 14,885 | 5,400 | $287K |
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 15% | 4,721 | 1,774 | $122K |
| 99402 | <1% | 263 | 138 | $2K | |
| 97150 | Therapeutic procedure(s), group (2 or more individuals) | <1% | 146 | 83 | $2K |
| 96131 | <1% | 21 | 12 | $874.00 | |
| 99411 | <1% | 24 | 12 | $240.00 |
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 officialSCHMIDT, CHUCK (SUPERINTENDENT)
Parent organizationTRI-COUNTY SPECIAL EDUCATION COOPERATIVE