Agency
Merkel Independent School District
Merkel Independent School District was paid $104K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Apr 2023, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is T1019, help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutes — 79% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMERKEL INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
MERKEL, TX 79536
MERKEL, TX 79536
33aNPI1962930610assigned 05/25/2017
33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)
28Total paid$104K
24GClaims7,153
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Apr 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#569 of 752
Median peer was paid$463K
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 | 2,269 | $53K | |
| 2019 | 2,105 | $37K | |
| 2020 | 559 | $4K | |
| 2021 | 895 | $5K | |
| 2022 | 1,115 | $5K | |
| 2023 | 210 | $894.51 |
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) | 79% | 2,952 | 190 | $82K |
| 92508 | Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 18% | 3,938 | 1,151 | $19K |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 3.2% | 239 | 94 | $3K |
| T1003 | Lpn/lvn services, up to 15 minutes | <1% | 24 | 13 | $103.65 |
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 officialBILLS, CASEY (BUSINESS MANAGER)