Agency
Higher Ground Pediatric Therapy, PLLC
Higher Ground Pediatric Therapy, PLLC was paid $3.74M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 97530, Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes — 62% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoHIGHER GROUND PEDIATRIC THERAPY, PLLC
ARDEN, NC 28704
ARDEN, NC 28704
33aNPI1710288378assigned 11/12/2010
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$3.74M
24GClaims50,820
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#211 of 856
Median peer was paid$908K
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 | 6,758 | $441K | |
| 2019 | 6,118 | $487K | |
| 2020 | 5,453 | $448K | |
| 2021 | 7,677 | $574K | |
| 2022 | 8,495 | $610K | |
| 2023 | 8,345 | $596K | |
| 2024incomplete | 7,974 | $580K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 62% | 27,746 | 9,442 | $2.30M |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 37% | 21,905 | 6,273 | $1.39M |
| 97110 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion | <1% | 610 | 232 | $28K |
| 92523 | <1% | 82 | 66 | $11K | |
| 97535 | Self-care/home management training, each 15 minutes | <1% | 435 | 150 | $10K |
| 97127 | 0% | 42 | 27 | $0.00 |
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 officialBROWN, RICHARD (OWNER)
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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.