Agency
Hospice Cheer
Hospice Cheer was paid $5.77M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 0658, — 100% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoHOSPICE CHEER
PASADENA, CA 91107
PASADENA, CA 91107
33aNPI1982635140assigned 07/06/2006
33bProvider typeCommunity Based Hospice Care Agency
28Total paid$5.77M
24GClaims4,739
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community Based Hospice Care Agency providers in California
Rank by total paid#38 of 557
Median peer was paid$511K
This provider vs. median11×
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.
Entity ProliferationAuthorized official FRIEDMAN, DAVID controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
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 | 244 | $699K | |
| 2019 | 438 | $1.35M | |
| 2020 | 301 | $1.29M | |
| 2021 | 246 | $994K | |
| 2022 | 217 | $712K | |
| 2023 | 272 | $634K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,021 | $92K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0658 | 100% | 1,640 | 1,596 | $5.77M | |
| G0299 | Direct skilled nursing services of a registered nurse (rn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 0% | 34 | 24 | $0.00 |
| 0250 | 0% | 932 | 155 | $0.00 | |
| 0571 | 0% | 1,160 | 165 | $0.00 | |
| G0156 | Services of home health/hospice aide in home health or hospice settings, each 15 minutes | 0% | 35 | 13 | $0.00 |
| G0300 | Direct skilled nursing services of a licensed practical nurse (lpn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes | 0% | 31 | 25 | $0.00 |
| Q5003 | Hospice care provided in nursing long term care facility (ltc) or non-skilled nursing facility (nf) | 0% | 12 | 12 | $0.00 |
| 0551 | 0% | 895 | 170 | $0.00 |
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 officialFRIEDMAN, DAVID (PRESIDENT)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Lakewood Resource and Referral Center INC | Lakewood, NJ | $46.70M |
| Lakewood Resource and Referral Center, INC. | Lakewood, NJ | $8.14M |
| Lakewood Resource and Referral Center INC | Lakewood, NJ | $2.37M |
| Eastland Subacute and Rehab LLC | El Monte, CA | $2.23M |
| Chino Valley Rehabilitation Center LLC | Pomona, CA | $1.21M |
| Colonial Care Center INC. | Long Beach, CA | $884K |
| SGV Healthcare INC | San Gabriel, CA | $698K |
| Artesia Healthcare, INC | Burbank, CA | $642K |
| Ability Homecare, INC | Sherman Oaks, CA | $213K |
| Comfort Care Hospice, INC. | Sherman Oaks, CA | $200K |
| Park Anaheim Health Care, LLC | Anaheim, CA | $147K |
| Coldwater Care Center LLC | N Hollywood, CA | $75K |
| Imperial Crest Healthcare Center, LLC | Hawthorne, CA | $47K |
| David B. Friedman, MD, INC | Anaheim, CA | $42K |
| Covina Care Center, INC. | Covina, CA | $21K |
| Cerritos Vista Healthcare Center LLC | Bellflower, CA | $19K |
| Mayflower Care Center LLC | El Monte, CA | $19K |
| Montrose Healthcare INC | Montrose, CA | $9K |
| Meadows Ridge Care Center LLC | Colton, CA | $8K |
| Beaumont Manor LLC | Beaumont, CA | $1K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.