Agency
Prairie Lakes Aea 8
Prairie Lakes Aea 8 was paid $282K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is T1017, case management, billed per 15 minutes — 25% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPRAIRIE LAKES AEA 8
POCAHONTAS, IA 50574
POCAHONTAS, IA 50574
33aNPI1922162858assigned 12/22/2006
33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)
28Total paid$282K
24GClaims14,457
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in Iowa
Rank by total paid#71 of 101
Median peer was paid$1.33M
This provider vs. median0.2×
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 | 2,843 | $54K | |
| 2019 | 3,012 | $61K | |
| 2020 | 1,527 | $30K | |
| 2021 | 1,418 | $29K | |
| 2022 | 2,087 | $41K | |
| 2023 | 1,728 | $33K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,842 | $34K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1017 | Case management, billed per 15 minutesTargeted case management, each 15 minutes | 25% | 4,266 | 3,708 | $70K |
| 96158 | 21% | 2,235 | 1,749 | $60K | |
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 21% | 3,302 | 1,968 | $59K |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 16% | 2,510 | 1,799 | $46K |
| 96152 | 14% | 1,845 | 1,303 | $41K | |
| 97116 | 2.0% | 252 | 191 | $6K | |
| 97535 | Self-care/home management training, each 15 minutes | <1% | 33 | 27 | $647.06 |
| 96159 | <1% | 14 | 12 | $167.16 |
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 officialSTREMEL, JERRY (DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EDUCATION)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Prairie Lakes Aea 8 | Pocahontas, IA | $1.60M |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.