Merced County Office of Education

Merced County Office of Education was paid $2.03M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 20 billing codes. Its largest line is 92507, Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder — 27% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMERCED COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION
MERCED, CA 95340

33aNPI1992848501assigned 02/14/2007

33bProvider typeLocal Education Agency (LEA)

28Total paid$2.03M

24GClaims46,700

24DCodes billed20

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Local Education Agency (LEA) providers in California

Rank by total paid#99 of 559

Median peer was paid$475K

This provider vs. median4.3×

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	5,404	$245K
2019	2,871	$128K
2020	2,114	$149K
2021	8,081	$412K
2022	5,959	$249K
2023	11,360	$435K
2024incomplete	10,911	$409K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
92507	Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder	27%	18,082	7,307	$550K
96158		16%	6,537	2,587	$318K
96130		13%	932	929	$270K
T1001	Nursing assessment / evaluation	13%	4,286	3,911	$260K
H2019	Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes	11%	2,456	233	$230K
97110	Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion	3.8%	1,963	858	$77K
96101		3.0%	277	215	$60K
92508	Group treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder	2.5%	3,787	1,981	$51K
96152		2.3%	1,224	584	$47K
96164		2.3%	4,298	1,742	$47K
H2012	Behavioral health day treatment, per hour	2.1%	374	171	$43K
92523		<1%	293	280	$17K

8 more codes

T1004	Services of a qualified nursing aide, up to 15 minutes	<1%	959	$15K
97167		<1%	125	$13K
T1003	Lpn/lvn services, up to 15 minutes	<1%	177	$8K
H0032	Mental health service plan development by non-physician	<1%	45	$6K
96153		<1%	652	$5K
92521		<1%	104	$3K
92524		<1%	104	$3K
97003		<1%	25	$3K

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 officialANDERSEN, LEE (SUPERINTENDENT)