Residential
OIG excluded
Nevada First Choice
Nevada First Choice was paid $3.74M by Medicaid between Jul 2019 and Sep 2020, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is H0004, Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes — 32% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoNEVADA FIRST CHOICE
TEMPE, AZ 85283
TEMPE, AZ 85283
33aNPI1023572658assigned 01/28/2019
28Total paid$3.74M
24GClaims5,958
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJul 2019 – Sep 2020
Compared with peers
Next to other Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities Residential Treatment Facility providers in Arizona
Rank by total paid#14 of 34
Median peer was paid$2.26M
This provider vs. median1.7×
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
OIG exclusionListed on the federal exclusion list (11/20/2024).
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3,130 | $300K | |
| 2020 | 2,828 | $3.44M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H0004 | Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes | 32% | 947 | 355 | $1.19M |
| H2014 | Skills training and development, per 15 minutes | 25% | 954 | 357 | $953K |
| H2027 | Psychoeducational service, per 15 minutes | 21% | 86 | 83 | $774K |
| H2017 | Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes | 14% | 841 | 255 | $529K |
| S9480 | Intensive outpatient psychiatric services, per diem | 7.3% | 2,852 | 335 | $272K |
| H2011 | Crisis intervention service, per 15 minutes | <1% | 104 | 40 | $17K |
| 90876 | <1% | 99 | 47 | $7K | |
| 90837 | Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient | <1% | 47 | 42 | $2K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 28 | 28 | $1K |
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 officialLAAWSON, SHARON (OWNER)