Agency
Cherokee County Schools
Cherokee County Schools was paid $265K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 97530, Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes — 59% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHEROKEE COUNTY SCHOOLS
MURPHY, NC 28906
MURPHY, NC 28906
33aNPI1841211901assigned 07/22/2006
33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)
28Total paid$265K
24GClaims5,481
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#76 of 101
Median peer was paid$1.03M
This provider vs. median0.3×
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 | 493 | $23K | |
| 2019 | 907 | $47K | |
| 2020 | 693 | $35K | |
| 2021 | 811 | $42K | |
| 2022 | 816 | $34K | |
| 2023 | 756 | $36K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,005 | $49K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 59% | 3,349 | 1,453 | $155K |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 22% | 859 | 402 | $58K |
| 97112 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; neuromuscular reeducation of movement, balance, coordination | 7.3% | 432 | 180 | $19K |
| 97150 | Therapeutic procedure(s), group (2 or more individuals) | 6.6% | 363 | 182 | $17K |
| 97110 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion | 3.0% | 168 | 75 | $8K |
| 92508 | Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 2.8% | 310 | 107 | $7K |
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 officialALVERSON, JODI (DIRECTOR OF EXC CHILDREN SERVICES)