Agency
Meritan, INC
Meritan, INC was paid $16.93M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is H2020, Therapeutic behavioral services, per diem — 48% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMERITAN, INC
MEMPHIS, TN 38103
MEMPHIS, TN 38103
33aNPI1821172461assigned 10/24/2006
33bProvider typeFoster Care Agency
28Total paid$16.93M
24GClaims8,643
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Foster Care Agency providers in Tennessee
Rank by total paid#2 of 8
Median peer was paid$2.76M
This provider vs. median6.1×
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.
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 | 1,182 | $191K | |
| 2019 | 262 | $117K | |
| 2020 | 1,201 | $1.99M | |
| 2021 | 1,498 | $2.49M | |
| 2022 | 1,311 | $3.55M | |
| 2023 | 1,774 | $4.61M | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,415 | $3.98M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2020 | Therapeutic behavioral services, per diem | 48% | 4,048 | 3,791 | $8.09M |
| H0019 | Behavioral health; long-term residential (non-medical, non-acute care in a residential treatment program where stay is typically longer than 30 days), without room and board, per diem | 35% | 1,591 | 1,436 | $6.00M |
| T2016 | A day of residential support for a person with a developmental disabilityHabilitation, residential, waiver; per diem | 14% | 1,148 | 496 | $2.33M |
| S5145 | Foster care, therapeutic, child; per diem | 1.8% | 482 | 453 | $310K |
| T2033 | Residential care, not otherwise specified (nos), waiver; per diem | <1% | 636 | 37 | $158K |
| T1019 | Help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutesPersonal care services, per 15 minutes, not for an inpatient or resident of a hospital, nursing facility, icf/mr or imd, part of the individualized plan of treatment (code may not be used to identify services provided by home health aide or certified nurse assistant) | <1% | 738 | 48 | $44K |
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 officialKELLER, MELANIE (PRESIDENT)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Apelah | Hernando, MS | $456K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.