Behavioral
Ariel Community Care, LLC
Ariel Community Care, LLC was paid $36.82M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is H0038, Self-help/peer services, per 15 minutes — 98% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoARIEL COMMUNITY CARE, LLC
YANCEYVILLE, NC 27379
YANCEYVILLE, NC 27379
33aNPI1114325347assigned 12/22/2014
33bProvider typeCounselor
28Total paid$36.82M
24GClaims222,653
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Counselor providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#3 of 123
Median peer was paid$318K
This provider vs. median116×
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 | 40,819 | $7.23M | |
| 2019 | 50,275 | $8.57M | |
| 2020 | 31,195 | $4.11M | |
| 2021 | 27,843 | $4.34M | |
| 2022 | 21,892 | $4.20M | |
| 2023 | 24,031 | $4.16M | |
| 2024incomplete | 26,598 | $4.22M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H0038 | Self-help/peer services, per 15 minutes | 98% | 219,150 | 23,633 | $36.16M |
| H2022 | Community-based wrap-around services, per diem | <1% | 806 | 79 | $219K |
| H0015 | Alcohol and/or drug services; intensive outpatient (treatment program that operates at least 3 hours/day and at least 3 days/week and is based on an individualized treatment plan), including assessment, counseling; crisis intervention, and activity therapies or education | <1% | 1,654 | 156 | $217K |
| T1019 | Help at home with bathing, dressing and eating, billed per 15 minutesPersonal care services, per 15 minutes, not for an inpatient or resident of a hospital, nursing facility, icf/mr or imd, part of the individualized plan of treatment (code may not be used to identify services provided by home health aide or certified nurse assistant) | <1% | 845 | 53 | $176K |
| T1023 | Screening to determine the appropriateness of consideration of an individual for participation in a specified program, project or treatment protocol, per encounter | <1% | 186 | 182 | $42K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 12 | 12 | $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 officialPICKENS, PIERRE (OWNER/MANAGER)