Friendly Care, INC

Friendly Care, INC was paid $12.56M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2022, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is T1019, help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutes — 99% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFRIENDLY CARE, INC
REYNOLDSBURG, OH 43068

33aNPI1962775601assigned 02/10/2012

33bProvider typeHome Health Agency

28Total paid$12.56M

24GClaims153,907

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2022

Compared with peers

Next to other Home Health Agency providers in Ohio

Rank by total paid#85 of 915

Median peer was paid$1.83M

This provider vs. median6.9×

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.

OIG exclusionListed on the federal exclusion list (12/20/2023).

Single-Code Concentration99% of spending on code T1019 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	38,425	$2.96M
2019	37,262	$3.01M
2020	35,328	$2.89M
2021	29,906	$2.51M
2022	12,986	$1.18M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
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)	99%	151,421	9,806	$12.46M
T1001	Nursing assessment / evaluation	<1%	1,393	1,387	$50K
S5130	Homemaker services, billed per 15 minutesHomemaker service, nos; per 15 minutes	<1%	1,093	200	$47K

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 officialLANTSMAN, BORIS (CEO)

Same official

Other billing entities under LANTSMAN, BORIS

Full network →

Provider	Location	Paid
A-Plus Care INC	Loveland, OH	$29.12M

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.