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Beginning Step INC.

Beginning Step INC. was paid $11.80M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is H0015, Alcohol and/or drug services; intensive outpatient (treatment program that operates at least 3 hours/day and at least 3 days/week and is based on an individualized treatment plan), including assessment, counseling; crisis intervention, and activity therapies or education — 39% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBEGINNING STEP INC.
WESTLAND, MI 48186
33aNPI1023482825assigned 11/18/2015
28Total paid$11.80M
24GClaims221,568
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor providers in Michigan

Rank by total paid#2 of 64
Median peer was paid$218K
This provider vs. median54×

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

$0$100K$200K$300K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
201825,145$1.34M
201926,783$1.48M
202025,629$1.33M
202135,165$1.77M
202237,924$2.05M
202335,456$1.93M
2024incomplete35,466$1.90M
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
H0015 Alcohol and/or drug services; intensive outpatient (treatment program that operates at least 3 hours/day and at least 3 days/week and is based on an individualized treatment plan), including assessment, counseling; crisis intervention, and activity therapies or education 39% 44,592 4,069 $4.56M
T1012 Alcohol and/or substance abuse services, skills development 16% 33,327 5,609 $1.92M
S9976 Lodging, per diem, not otherwise classified 16% 65,193 4,220 $1.84M
H0006 Alcohol and/or drug services; case management 7.6% 11,143 3,820 $893K
H0038 Self-help/peer services, per 15 minutes 6.3% 24,871 6,450 $744K
H2034 Alcohol and/or drug abuse halfway house services, per diem 6.0% 23,443 1,031 $704K
90837 Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient 5.4% 7,767 3,505 $643K
H0001 Alcohol and/or drug assessment 1.9% 1,916 1,856 $224K
H0003 Alcohol and/or drug screening; laboratory analysis of specimens for presence of alcohol and/or drugs 1.8% 6,875 4,868 $210K
90853 Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group) <1% 2,441 1,010 $66K

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 officialOESTERWIND, DONALD (PROGRAM DIRECTOR)