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Homefirst Lhcsa INC Dba Metropolitan Jewish Lic. Home Care Serv. Agen

Homefirst Lhcsa INC Dba Metropolitan Jewish Lic. Home Care Serv. Agen was paid $6.83M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2019, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is T1019, help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutes — 91% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoHOMEFIRST LHCSA INC DBA METROPOLITAN JEWISH LIC. HOME CARE SERV. AGEN
BROOKLYN, NY 11220
33aNPI1710148549assigned 06/24/2008
33bProvider typeHome Health Agency
28Total paid$6.83M
24GClaims55,913
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2019
Compared with peers

Next to other Home Health Agency providers in New York

Rank by total paid#533 of 851
Median peer was paid$15.00M
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.

Auditor's notes

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

Single-Code Concentration91% of spending on code T1019 with only 2 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$200K$400K$600K2018201920202021202220232024
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
201823,512$2.63M
201932,401$4.20M
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
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) 91% 50,366 2,350 $6.22M
T1020 Help at home with daily living, billed per dayPersonal care services, per diem, 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) 8.9% 5,547 284 $608K

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 officialBALKO, ALEXANDER (SR.VP/CFO)
Same official

Other billing entities under BALKO, ALEXANDER

Full network →
ProviderLocationPaid
Metropolitan Jewish Home Care INC.New York, NY$8.73M
MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care INC.New York, NY$7.99M

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