Carolina Home Care Specialists, INC.
Carolina Home Care Specialists, INC. was paid $4.71M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2024, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is S5125, attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutes — 100% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCAROLINA HOME CARE SPECIALISTS, INC.
SPRUCE PINE, NC 28777
SPRUCE PINE, NC 28777
33aNPI1730197500assigned 08/04/2006
33bProvider typePersonal Care Attendant
28Total paid$4.71M
24GClaims39,380
24DCodes billed1
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Personal Care Attendant providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#10 of 28
Median peer was paid$2.23M
This provider vs. median2.1×
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Single-Code Concentration100% of spending on code S5125 with only 1 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
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 | 9,237 | $866K | |
| 2019 | 7,581 | $676K | |
| 2020 | 7,094 | $774K | |
| 2021 | 6,219 | $846K | |
| 2022 | 4,835 | $800K | |
| 2023 | 3,888 | $660K | |
| 2024incomplete | 526 | $91K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S5125 | Attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutesAttendant care services; per 15 minutes | 100% | 39,380 | 2,017 | $4.71M |
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 officialLUTTRELL, DONNA (AGENCY DIRECTOR)