Agency
Higdon Companies, INC.
Higdon Companies, INC. was paid $2.97M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2022, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is S5125, attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutes — 67% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoHIGDON COMPANIES, INC.
CHATTANOOGA, TN 37421
CHATTANOOGA, TN 37421
33aNPI1912208992assigned 11/08/2010
33bProvider typeIn Home Supportive Care Agency
28Total paid$2.97M
24GClaims34,171
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other In Home Supportive Care Agency providers in Tennessee
Rank by total paid#68 of 144
Median peer was paid$2.39M
This provider vs. median1.2×
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 | 14,042 | $1.14M | |
| 2019 | 8,399 | $732K | |
| 2020 | 6,967 | $624K | |
| 2021 | 3,929 | $377K | |
| 2022 | 834 | $93K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S5125 | Attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutesAttendant care services; per 15 minutes | 67% | 19,031 | 883 | $2.00M |
| 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) | 32% | 14,569 | 813 | $944K |
| S5150 | Respite care, billed per 15 minutesUnskilled respite care, not hospice; per 15 minutes | <1% | 571 | 114 | $28K |
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 officialHIGDON, KENNY (PRESIDENT)