Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest
Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest was paid $31.54M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is S5125, attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutes — 93% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST
TUCSON, AZ 85711
TUCSON, AZ 85711
33aNPI1942510201assigned 10/20/2010
33bProvider typeRespite Care
28Total paid$31.54M
24GClaims370,211
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Respite Care providers in Arizona
Rank by total paid#1 of 7
Median peer was paid$1.01M
This provider vs. median31×
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Single-Code Concentration93% of spending on code S5125 with only 3 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
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 | 70,651 | $4.62M | |
| 2019 | 61,096 | $4.33M | |
| 2020 | 54,433 | $4.21M | |
| 2021 | 47,095 | $3.80M | |
| 2022 | 44,674 | $4.22M | |
| 2023 | 49,147 | $5.36M | |
| 2024incomplete | 43,115 | $5.01M |
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 | 93% | 334,955 | 15,796 | $29.37M |
| S5150 | Respite care, billed per 15 minutesUnskilled respite care, not hospice; per 15 minutes | 6.6% | 33,802 | 3,524 | $2.09M |
| S5135 | Companion care, adult (e.g., iadl/adl); per 15 minutes | <1% | 1,454 | 630 | $84K |
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 officialMONROE, CHARLES (PRESIDENT/CEO)