First Step Arkansas, LLC

First Step Arkansas, LLC was paid $23.65M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 24 billing codes. Its largest line is T1015, a visit at a community health center or clinic (one all-in rate) — 53% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFIRST STEP ARKANSAS, LLC
JONESBORO, AR 72401

33aNPI1164957080assigned 04/28/2017

33bProvider typeEarly Intervention Provider Agency

28Total paid$23.65M

24GClaims405,135

24DCodes billed24

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Early Intervention Provider Agency providers in Arkansas

Rank by total paid#1 of 12

Median peer was paid$685K

This provider vs. median35×

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	49,250	$2.01M
2019	53,626	$3.22M
2020	60,909	$3.23M
2021	72,628	$3.90M
2022	66,716	$3.80M
2023	56,164	$3.62M
2024incomplete	45,842	$3.87M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
T1015	A visit at a community health center or clinic (one all-in rate)Clinic visit/encounter, all-inclusive	53%	211,046	10,468	$12.57M
92507	Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder	19%	62,998	28,914	$4.51M
97530	Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes	13%	54,950	24,625	$3.11M
97110	Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion	12%	56,974	24,210	$2.88M
97535	Self-care/home management training, each 15 minutes	1.0%	7,404	538	$239K
97532		<1%	7,509	532	$186K
96112		<1%	666	600	$62K
97162		<1%	200	191	$28K
99367		<1%	1,130	470	$23K
T1023	Screening to determine the appropriateness of consideration of an individual for participation in a specified program, project or treatment protocol, per encounter	<1%	143	136	$14K
G0515	Development of cognitive skills to improve attention, memory, problem solving (includes compensatory training), direct (one-on-one) patient contact, each 15 minutes	<1%	677	82	$8K
T1027	Family training and counseling for child development, per 15 minutes	<1%	647	407	$6K

12 more codes

97001		<1%	57	$5K
T1024	Evaluation and treatment by an integrated, specialty team contracted to provide coordinated care to multiple or severely handicapped children, per encounter	<1%	345	$4K
97003		<1%	47	$3K
90887		<1%	33	$2K
96111		<1%	22	$1K
99203	Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)	<1%	16	$778.80
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	20	$604.80
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)	<1%	15	$544.50
99201		<1%	22	$504.90
92550		<1%	13	$324.48
97802		<1%	79	$284.80
Q3014	Telehealth originating site facility fee	0%	122	$0.00

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 officialRAY, JENNIFER (PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR)