Clinic
Smiles for Special Needs
Smiles for Special Needs was paid $226K by Medicaid between Aug 2023 and Nov 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 92507, Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder — 66% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSMILES FOR SPECIAL NEEDS
MESA, AZ 85204
MESA, AZ 85204
33aNPI1821710906assigned 09/14/2022
33bProvider typeHearing and Speech Clinic/Center
28Total paid$226K
24GClaims2,647
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthAug 2023 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Hearing and Speech Clinic/Center providers in Arizona
Rank by total paid#6 of 7
Median peer was paid$453K
This provider vs. median0.5×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 513 | $40K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,134 | $186K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 66% | 1,736 | 400 | $148K |
| 97535 | Self-care/home management training, each 15 minutes | 34% | 911 | 203 | $77K |
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 officialHUGHES, JOSEPH (OWNER)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Smiles for Special Needs | Mesa, AZ | $16K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.