Agency
New Bedford Public Schools
New Bedford Public Schools was paid $3.07M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2023, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is H2019, therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutes — 86% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoNEW BEDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
NEW BEDFORD, MA 02740
NEW BEDFORD, MA 02740
33aNPI1750411229assigned 03/06/2007
33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)
28Total paid$3.07M
24GClaims56,168
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in Massachusetts
Rank by total paid#4 of 234
Median peer was paid$48K
This provider vs. median63×
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 | 29,904 | $2.05M | |
| 2019 | 21,300 | $905K | |
| 2020 | 494 | $10K | |
| 2021 | 1,382 | $35K | |
| 2022 | 2,087 | $43K | |
| 2023 | 1,001 | $20K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2019 | Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes | 86% | 31,495 | 2,890 | $2.62M |
| 92508 | Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 11% | 19,286 | 5,615 | $324K |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 1.9% | 1,764 | 672 | $60K |
| 97150 | Therapeutic procedure(s), group (2 or more individuals) | 1.2% | 2,057 | 778 | $38K |
| 97110 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion | <1% | 1,268 | 387 | $16K |
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient | <1% | 178 | 66 | $5K |
| 92521 | <1% | 33 | 29 | $586.95 | |
| 99173 | <1% | 49 | 49 | $406.20 | |
| 92551 | <1% | 38 | 38 | $126.23 |
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 officialFINNERTY, LAWRENCE (ASST. SUPT. FOR SPECIAL SERVICES)