Dorchester School District 4

Dorchester School District 4 was paid $878K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 92508, Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder — 45% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoDORCHESTER SCHOOL DISTRICT 4
SAINT GEORGE, SC 29477

33aNPI1982662656assigned 05/03/2006

33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)

28Total paid$878K

24GClaims50,391

24DCodes billed8

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in South Carolina

Rank by total paid#50 of 77

Median peer was paid$1.34M

This provider vs. median0.7×

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	7,764	$150K
2019	7,984	$147K
2020	3,785	$83K
2021	5,130	$124K
2022	8,116	$128K
2023	9,928	$141K
2024incomplete	7,684	$105K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
92508	Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder	45%	15,570	4,631	$391K
92507	Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder	19%	3,305	1,290	$166K
T1502	Administration of oral, intramuscular and/or subcutaneous medication by health care agency/professional, per visit	11%	11,455	957	$92K
97530	Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes	9.8%	1,777	768	$86K
T1015	A visit at a community health center or clinic (one all-in rate)Clinic visit/encounter, all-inclusive	9.1%	14,074	8,805	$80K
T1002	Rn services, up to 15 minutes	4.8%	2,737	2,028	$42K
T1003	Lpn/lvn services, up to 15 minutes	1.6%	1,372	1,137	$14K
S9152	Speech therapy, re-evaluation	<1%	101	100	$6K

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 officialMATTHEWS, DEBORAH (SUPERINTENDENT)

Same official

Other billing entities under MATTHEWS, DEBORAH

Full network →

Provider	Location	Paid
West Harvey-Dixmoor SD #147	Harvey, IL	$86K

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