Agency
Buffalo Beacon Corporation
Buffalo Beacon Corporation was paid $36.98M by Medicaid between May 2018 and Dec 2024, across 23 billing codes. Its largest line is G0397, Alcohol and/or substance (other than tobacco) misuse structured assessment (e.g., audit, dast), and intervention, greater than 30 minutes — 33% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBUFFALO BEACON CORPORATION
AMHERST, NY 14226
AMHERST, NY 14226
33aNPI1083618672assigned 06/10/2005
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$36.98M
24GClaims553,205
24DCodes billed23
24AFirst – last monthMay 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in New York
Rank by total paid#12 of 235
Median peer was paid$1.02M
This provider vs. median36×
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 | 1,062 | $39K | |
| 2019 | 43,914 | $2.75M | |
| 2020 | 110,008 | $7.84M | |
| 2021 | 104,126 | $7.06M | |
| 2022 | 104,679 | $6.50M | |
| 2023 | 103,927 | $6.96M | |
| 2024incomplete | 85,489 | $5.84M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G0397 | Alcohol and/or substance (other than tobacco) misuse structured assessment (e.g., audit, dast), and intervention, greater than 30 minutes | 33% | 96,705 | 42,631 | $12.13M |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 20% | 64,153 | 32,298 | $7.27M |
| H0020 | Alcohol and/or drug services; methadone administration and/or service (provision of the drug by a licensed program) | 14% | 218,531 | 14,085 | $5.35M |
| H0005 | Alcohol and/or drug services; group counseling by a clinician | 13% | 100,762 | 19,743 | $4.99M |
| G0396 | Alcohol and/or substance (other than tobacco) misuse structured assessment (e.g., audit, dast), and brief intervention 15 to 30 minutes | 12% | 44,616 | 25,033 | $4.41M |
| H0001 | Alcohol and/or drug assessment | 2.5% | 6,735 | 6,541 | $932K |
| G2067 | Medication assisted treatment, methadone; weekly bundle including dispensing and/or administration, substance use counseling, individual and group therapy, and toxicology testing, if performed (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program) | 2.0% | 4,076 | 1,958 | $733K |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 1.3% | 4,631 | 2,153 | $465K |
| H0004 | Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes | <1% | 3,861 | 2,311 | $179K |
| H0002 | Behavioral health screening to determine eligibility for admission to treatment program | <1% | 608 | 606 | $102K |
| H0038 | Self-help/peer services, per 15 minutes | <1% | 2,640 | 1,382 | $91K |
| 99395 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, 18-39 years | <1% | 682 | 680 | $72K |
11 more codes
| 90853 | Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group) | <1% | 2,390 | $63K |
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutes | <1% | 716 | $61K |
| S9480 | Intensive outpatient psychiatric services, per diem | <1% | 482 | $44K |
| 99396 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, 40-64 years | <1% | 254 | $29K |
| 90836 | <1% | 260 | $22K | |
| 99204 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved) | <1% | 207 | $20K |
| 90882 | <1% | 346 | $8K | |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 28 | $4K |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | <1% | 176 | $2K |
| 86580 | <1% | 180 | $900.00 | |
| J2315 | Injection, naltrexone, depot form, 1 mg | <1% | 166 | $522.31 |
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 officialWEST, JACQUELINE (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER)