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First Choice Children's Homecare, LP

First Choice Children's Homecare, LP was paid $9.72M by Medicaid between Oct 2020 and Nov 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is T1000, Private duty / independent nursing service(s) - licensed, up to 15 minutes — 92% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFIRST CHOICE CHILDREN'S HOMECARE, LP
LUBBOCK, TX 79423
33aNPI1720342025assigned 07/02/2012
33bProvider typeNursing Care Agency
28Total paid$9.72M
24GClaims28,913
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthOct 2020 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Nursing Care Agency providers in Texas

Rank by total paid#62 of 162
Median peer was paid$5.72M
This provider vs. median1.7×

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.

Auditor's notes

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

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official BUCKHALTER, MATTHEW controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$100K$200K$300K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2020896$289K
20216,612$2.20M
20228,803$2.67M
20238,412$2.78M
2024incomplete4,190$1.78M
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
T1000 Private duty / independent nursing service(s) - licensed, up to 15 minutes 92% 21,053 895 $8.92M
92507 Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder 6.1% 5,754 1,005 $588K
97530 Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes 1.3% 1,160 232 $129K
97110 Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion <1% 946 159 $81K

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 officialBUCKHALTER, MATTHEW (CFO)
Same official

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