North Star Community Services, INC

North Star Community Services, INC was paid $26.77M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is T2020, Day habilitation, waiver; per diem — 45% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoNORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC
WATERLOO, IA 50701

33aNPI1861544397assigned 01/17/2007

33bProvider typeAdult Day Care Clinic/Center

28Total paid$26.77M

24GClaims239,245

24DCodes billed8

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Adult Day Care Clinic/Center providers in Iowa

Rank by total paid#2 of 15

Median peer was paid$1.66M

This provider vs. median16×

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	14,161	$4.90M
2019	44,116	$4.88M
2020	31,441	$3.28M
2021	40,038	$3.83M
2022	38,748	$3.63M
2023	38,236	$3.39M
2024incomplete	32,505	$2.85M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
T2020	Day habilitation, waiver; per diem	45%	114,454	9,955	$11.96M
H2015	Community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutesComprehensive community support services, per 15 minutes	28%	53,582	7,708	$7.45M
H2016	Community support for mental illness or disability, billed per dayComprehensive community support services, per diem	15%	21,558	5,222	$4.01M
S5102	Adult day care, billed per dayDay care services, adult; per diem	10%	34,357	3,458	$2.71M
T2021	Day program for adults with developmental disabilities, per 15 minutesDay habilitation, waiver; per 15 minutes	1.5%	13,711	4,451	$401K
S5125	Attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutesAttendant care services; per 15 minutes	<1%	306	276	$154K
S5101	Day care services, adult; per half day	<1%	917	486	$43K
S5150	Respite care, billed per 15 minutesUnskilled respite care, not hospice; per 15 minutes	<1%	360	228	$41K

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 officialSCHWAGER, VALERIE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)