Hospice Ministries, INC.

Hospice Ministries, INC. was paid $1.53M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Apr 2023, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is Q5003, Hospice care provided in nursing long term care facility (ltc) or non-skilled nursing facility (nf) — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoHOSPICE MINISTRIES, INC.
RIDGELAND, MS 39157

33aNPI1821089954assigned 10/28/2005

33bProvider typeCommunity Based Hospice Care Agency

28Total paid$1.53M

24GClaims468

24DCodes billed1

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Apr 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Community Based Hospice Care Agency providers in Mississippi

Rank by total paid#10 of 42

Median peer was paid$73K

This provider vs. median21×

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 Q5003 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	194	$547K
2019	89	$271K
2020	35	$111K
2021	17	$65K
2022	88	$344K
2023	45	$187K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
Q5003	Hospice care provided in nursing long term care facility (ltc) or non-skilled nursing facility (nf)	100%	468	367	$1.53M

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 officialPATTERSON, BELINDA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)