Lake Whatcom Residential & Treatment Center

Lake Whatcom Residential & Treatment Center was paid $10.29M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 19 billing codes. Its largest line is H0019, Behavioral health; long-term residential (non-medical, non-acute care in a residential treatment program where stay is typically longer than 30 days), without room and board, per diem — 52% of everything it billed.

Compared with peers

Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Washington

Rank by total paid#6 of 368

Median peer was paid$48K

This provider vs. median216×

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	69,685	$13K
2019	40,184	$831K
2020	27,853	$1.32M
2021	31,600	$1.91M
2022	37,145	$1.98M
2023	24,256	$2.40M
2024incomplete	27,412	$1.83M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
H0019	Behavioral health; long-term residential (non-medical, non-acute care in a residential treatment program where stay is typically longer than 30 days), without room and board, per diem	52%	110,069	3,934	$5.37M
H2015	Community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutesComprehensive community support services, per 15 minutes	29%	77,156	25,629	$2.95M
H0046	Mental health services, not otherwise specified	4.1%	23,399	12,787	$418K
H2023	Supported employment, per 15 minutes	4.0%	7,780	2,929	$407K
S9480	Intensive outpatient psychiatric services, per diem	3.2%	1,674	346	$326K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	2.2%	7,439	6,328	$227K
99214	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity	1.6%	3,868	3,295	$164K
99215	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis	1.6%	2,872	2,326	$162K
H0033	Oral medication administration, direct observation	1.4%	16,107	4,283	$145K
90837	Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient	<1%	549	271	$42K
90853	Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group)	<1%	399	180	$33K
96372	Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular	<1%	3,014	2,147	$29K

7 more codes

H0031	Mental health assessment, by non-physician	<1%	355	$20K
H0038	Self-help/peer services, per 15 minutes	0%	1,311	$0.00
T1016	Case management, each 15 minutes	0%	573	$0.00
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes	0%	135	$0.00
H0004	Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes	0%	322	$0.00
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation	0%	356	$0.00
96153		0%	757	$0.00

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 officialZAPIEN, STEPHANIE (FINANCE/IT DIRECTOR)