A Hand When Needed INC.

A Hand When Needed INC. was paid $3.18M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is H2017, psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutes — 53% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoA HAND WHEN NEEDED INC.
BATON ROUGE, LA 70819

33aNPI1063882694assigned 09/25/2015

33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency

28Total paid$3.18M

24GClaims39,342

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#82 of 374

Median peer was paid$831K

This provider vs. median3.8×

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	8,575	$723K
2019	6,659	$372K
2020	4,579	$363K
2021	4,103	$354K
2022	5,813	$519K
2023	5,137	$483K
2024incomplete	4,476	$367K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
H2017	Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes	53%	23,733	5,054	$1.68M
H0036	Community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutesCommunity psychiatric supportive treatment, face-to-face, per 15 minutes	47%	15,118	4,066	$1.48M
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	491	305	$19K

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 officialJONES, DESARAE (OWNER)