Agency
Kelly Spears, INC.
Kelly Spears, INC. was paid $3.04M by Medicaid between Feb 2018 and May 2023, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is 97153, applied behavior analysis (autism therapy), per 15 minutes — 37% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoKELLY SPEARS, INC.
METAIRIE, LA 70001
METAIRIE, LA 70001
33aNPI1710291786assigned 08/02/2010
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$3.04M
24GClaims60,160
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2018 – May 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#86 of 374
Median peer was paid$831K
This provider vs. median3.7×
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 | 22,683 | $1.42M | |
| 2019 | 22,220 | $972K | |
| 2020 | 11,061 | $558K | |
| 2021 | 1,692 | $19K | |
| 2022 | 2,383 | $63K | |
| 2023 | 121 | $5K |
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 | 37% | 12,335 | 321 | $1.11M |
| 0365T | 33% | 5,539 | 323 | $1.02M | |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 9.4% | 16,568 | 1,571 | $285K |
| 97155 | Adaptive behavior treatment with protocol modification, administered by physician, each 15 minutes | 7.6% | 5,897 | 308 | $232K |
| 0364T | 3.5% | 5,611 | 323 | $106K | |
| 0369T | 3.4% | 3,375 | 321 | $104K | |
| 0368T | 2.7% | 3,608 | 321 | $81K | |
| 0372T | 1.7% | 2,209 | 150 | $53K | |
| 97158 | 1.5% | 4,810 | 184 | $45K | |
| 92523 | <1% | 208 | 24 | $4K |
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 officialSPEARS, KRISTEN (PRESIDENT/SLP)