First Words Speech and Language Clinic
First Words Speech and Language Clinic was paid $844K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 92507, Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder — 100% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFIRST WORDS SPEECH AND LANGUAGE CLINIC
HELENA, MT 59602
HELENA, MT 59602
33aNPI1932556065assigned 05/18/2016
33bProvider typeSpeech-Language Pathologist
28Total paid$844K
24GClaims15,330
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Speech-Language Pathologist providers in Montana
Rank by total paid#4 of 50
Median peer was paid$82K
This provider vs. median10×
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 | 1,785 | $100K | |
| 2019 | 2,268 | $130K | |
| 2020 | 2,407 | $132K | |
| 2021 | 2,353 | $133K | |
| 2022 | 2,263 | $121K | |
| 2023 | 2,118 | $106K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,136 | $121K |
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 | 100% | 15,313 | 5,214 | $841K |
| 92523 | <1% | 17 | 14 | $3K |
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 officialWOODWARD, EMILY (SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST)