Agency
Tulare County Office of Education
Tulare County Office of Education was paid $3.16M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 97153, applied behavior analysis (autism therapy), per 15 minutes — 39% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTULARE COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION
VISALIA, CA 93277
VISALIA, CA 93277
33aNPI1710207162assigned 06/08/2010
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$3.16M
24GClaims57,623
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in California
Rank by total paid#216 of 633
Median peer was paid$779K
This provider vs. median4.1×
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 | 9,527 | $327K | |
| 2019 | 9,846 | $340K | |
| 2020 | 5,915 | $244K | |
| 2021 | 6,474 | $408K | |
| 2022 | 8,284 | $509K | |
| 2023 | 9,055 | $421K | |
| 2024incomplete | 8,522 | $910K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97153 | Applied behavior analysis (autism therapy), per 15 minutesAdaptive behavior treatment by protocol, administered by technician, each 15 minutes | 39% | 9,387 | 857 | $1.23M |
| H2019 | Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes | 28% | 23,234 | 2,087 | $875K |
| 97155 | Adaptive behavior treatment with protocol modification, administered by physician, each 15 minutes | 17% | 6,949 | 942 | $543K |
| H0032 | Mental health service plan development by non-physician | 14% | 16,574 | 3,004 | $434K |
| H0031 | Mental health assessment, by non-physician | 1.0% | 784 | 390 | $33K |
| 97156 | <1% | 422 | 229 | $30K | |
| 97151 | <1% | 185 | 86 | $18K | |
| H2014 | Skills training and development, per 15 minutes | <1% | 88 | 37 | $168.00 |
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 officialPEKAREK, RONALD (PROGRAM MANAGER)