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Southern Home Care Services, INC.

Southern Home Care Services, INC. was paid $10.67M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is S5125, attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutes — 92% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSOUTHERN HOME CARE SERVICES, INC.
OPELOUSAS, LA 70570
33aNPI1952612566assigned 06/29/2010
28Total paid$10.67M
24GClaims212,424
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other In Home Supportive Care Agency providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#48 of 261
Median peer was paid$3.12M
This provider vs. median3.4×

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.

High Claims/Beneficiary Ratio51 claims per beneficiary (threshold: 50). This could indicate intensive per-unit billing or warrant further review. Read more
Single-Code Concentration92% of spending on code S5125 with only 2 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
Entity ProliferationAuthorized official PEMBERTON, MARGARET controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$100K$200K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
201840,489$1.22M
201948,260$1.43M
202030,786$1.43M
202120,213$1.40M
202234,270$1.88M
202326,802$1.77M
2024incomplete11,604$1.53M
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
S5125 Attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutesAttendant care services; per 15 minutes 92% 176,607 3,421 $9.76M
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) 8.5% 35,817 768 $906K

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 officialPEMBERTON, MARGARET (VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR)
Same official

Other billing entities under PEMBERTON, MARGARET

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