Agency
A Caring Alternative, LLC
A Caring Alternative, LLC was paid $976K by Medicaid between May 2018 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is H2015, community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutes — 88% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoA CARING ALTERNATIVE, LLC
ASHEVILLE, NC 28803
ASHEVILLE, NC 28803
33aNPI1164885976assigned 03/30/2016
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$976K
24GClaims4,765
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthMay 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#417 of 856
Median peer was paid$908K
This provider vs. median1.1×
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 | 43 | $3K | |
| 2020 | 651 | $31K | |
| 2022 | 179 | $52K | |
| 2023 | 2,084 | $424K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,808 | $466K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2015 | Community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutesComprehensive community support services, per 15 minutes | 88% | 3,798 | 499 | $861K |
| H2022 | Community-based wrap-around services, per diem | 8.3% | 273 | 42 | $81K |
| H2021 | Community-based wrap-around services, per 15 minutes | 3.2% | 651 | 70 | $31K |
| 90837 | Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient | <1% | 43 | 13 | $3K |
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, ANGELA (CREDENTIALING)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Behavioral Framework, LLC | Rockville, MD | $4.26M |
| A Caring Alternative, LLC | Marion, NC | $3.99M |
| A Caring Alternative, LLC | Marion, NC | $2.05M |
| A Caring Alternative, LLC | Morganton, NC | $1.95M |
| DRS Figueroa & Ashker, PA | Cumberland, MD | $356.05 |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.