Behavioral
Bright Start Therapy, INC.
Bright Start Therapy, INC. was paid $1.06M by Medicaid between Aug 2018 and Dec 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 92507, Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder — 60% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBRIGHT START THERAPY, INC.
LEWISTON, ME 04240
LEWISTON, ME 04240
33aNPI1114363686assigned 05/10/2013
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$1.06M
24GClaims21,251
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthAug 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Maine
Rank by total paid#4 of 39
Median peer was paid$76K
This provider vs. median14×
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 | 202 | $5K | |
| 2019 | 842 | $33K | |
| 2020 | 1,755 | $74K | |
| 2021 | 5,128 | $224K | |
| 2022 | 5,139 | $260K | |
| 2023 | 4,087 | $194K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,098 | $267K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 60% | 14,062 | 2,409 | $631K |
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 31% | 5,388 | 1,612 | $328K |
| 92526 | 5.3% | 992 | 171 | $56K | |
| H0004 | Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes | 2.9% | 636 | 185 | $30K |
| 97110 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion | 1.1% | 161 | 51 | $11K |
| 92523 | <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 officialWELSH, BEATA (SLP, M.A.-CCC)