Brightside INC

Brightside INC was paid $11.41M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is H2019, therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutes — 90% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBRIGHTSIDE INC
SPRINGFIELD, MA 01104

33aNPI1093709370assigned 09/01/2005

33bProvider typeMental Health Clinic/Center (Including Community Mental Health Center)

28Total paid$11.41M

24GClaims94,817

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Mental Health Clinic/Center (Including Community Mental Health Center) providers in Massachusetts

Rank by total paid#19 of 72

Median peer was paid$1.85M

This provider vs. median6.2×

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.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official HARRIS, JAMES controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more

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	15,398	$1.64M
2019	14,895	$1.61M
2020	18,618	$1.79M
2021	17,729	$2.17M
2022	12,815	$1.77M
2023	9,290	$1.47M
2024incomplete	6,072	$948K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
H2019	Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes	90%	81,845	6,380	$10.29M
T1027	Family training and counseling for child development, per 15 minutes	9.0%	12,226	1,459	$1.02M
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	337	337	$46K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	<1%	390	295	$36K
96118		<1%	19	13	$8K

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 officialHARRIS, JAMES (REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF REIMBURSEMENT)

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