Agency
Merrill Area Public Schools
Merrill Area Public Schools was paid $1.26M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is S5125, attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutes — 50% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMERRILL AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
MERRILL, WI 54452
MERRILL, WI 54452
33aNPI1982883500assigned 10/31/2007
33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)
28Total paid$1.26M
24GClaims84,500
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in Wisconsin
Rank by total paid#47 of 364
Median peer was paid$240K
This provider vs. median5.2×
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 | 8,667 | $107K | |
| 2019 | 14,845 | $201K | |
| 2020 | 9,985 | $154K | |
| 2021 | 13,144 | $210K | |
| 2022 | 12,486 | $194K | |
| 2023 | 14,576 | $223K | |
| 2024incomplete | 10,797 | $169K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S5125 | Attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutesAttendant care services; per 15 minutes | 50% | 25,491 | 1,743 | $633K |
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 23% | 19,065 | 4,736 | $288K |
| T2003 | Non-emergency transportation, per tripNon-emergency transportation; encounter/trip | 13% | 14,924 | 1,420 | $158K |
| 92508 | Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 8.7% | 20,034 | 4,757 | $110K |
| 97110 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion | 5.5% | 4,986 | 1,237 | $69K |
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 officialSARNSTROM, SALLY (DISTRICT ADMINISTRATOR)