Bright Start, LLC
Bright Start, LLC was paid $20.82M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is T1017, case management, billed per 15 minutes — 48% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBRIGHT START, LLC
COLUMBIA, SC 29210
COLUMBIA, SC 29210
33aNPI1750698031assigned 09/08/2010
33bProvider typeSpeech-Language Pathologist
28Total paid$20.82M
24GClaims395,113
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Speech-Language Pathologist providers in South Carolina
Rank by total paid#2 of 163
Median peer was paid$157K
This provider vs. median133×
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 | 2,169 | $205K | |
| 2019 | 19,984 | $1.40M | |
| 2020 | 33,561 | $2.13M | |
| 2021 | 32,689 | $2.18M | |
| 2022 | 84,423 | $4.37M | |
| 2023 | 110,863 | $5.19M | |
| 2024incomplete | 111,424 | $5.35M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1017 | Case management, billed per 15 minutesTargeted case management, each 15 minutes | 48% | 239,716 | 61,036 | $10.06M |
| T1027 | Family training and counseling for child development, per 15 minutes | 24% | 52,432 | 20,887 | $4.98M |
| T1016 | Case management, each 15 minutes | 23% | 91,671 | 27,571 | $4.78M |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 4.7% | 10,823 | 2,902 | $972K |
| T1018 | School-based individualized education program (iep) services, bundled | <1% | 471 | 337 | $35K |
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 officialHAFNER, LAUREL (SPEECH THERAPIST/BILLING SPECIALIST)