Mercy Behavioral Health

Mercy Behavioral Health was paid $274K by Medicaid between Apr 2023 and Feb 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 97153, applied behavior analysis (autism therapy), per 15 minutes — 94% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMERCY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
BATON ROUGE, LA 70810

33aNPI1124744057assigned 10/12/2022

33bProvider typeBehavioral Analyst

28Total paid$274K

24GClaims3,433

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthApr 2023 – Feb 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Behavioral Analyst providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#35 of 53

Median peer was paid$505K

This provider vs. median0.5×

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
2023	2,921	$237K
2024incomplete	512	$37K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
97153	Applied behavior analysis (autism therapy), per 15 minutesAdaptive behavior treatment by protocol, administered by technician, each 15 minutes	94%	3,050	125	$257K
97151		2.9%	109	24	$8K
97155	Adaptive behavior treatment with protocol modification, administered by physician, each 15 minutes	2.7%	215	39	$8K
97156		<1%	59	27	$2K

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 officialHEARD, CATHERINE (OWNER)