Direct Care, INC.

Direct Care, INC. was paid $10.08M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 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 infoDIRECT CARE, INC.
LAKE CHARLES, LA 70605

33aNPI1780725135assigned 02/09/2007

33bProvider typeDevelopmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency

28Total paid$10.08M

24GClaims74,535

24DCodes billed1

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Developmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#23 of 196

Median peer was paid$1.12M

This provider vs. median9.0×

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	1,836	$1.12M
2019	1,995	$1.29M
2020	9,898	$1.25M
2021	14,083	$1.41M
2022	14,944	$1.59M
2023	13,838	$1.67M
2024incomplete	17,941	$1.75M

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%	74,535	1,905	$10.08M

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 officialLANDRY, GERI (BOARD PRESIDENT)