The Center for Growth and Independence

The Center for Growth and Independence was paid $9.26M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is H2015, community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutes — 70% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTHE CENTER FOR GROWTH AND INDEPENDENCE
BENTON HARBOR, MI 49022

33aNPI1174863732assigned 02/19/2013

33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency

28Total paid$9.26M

24GClaims85,801

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Michigan

Rank by total paid#52 of 263

Median peer was paid$541K

This provider vs. median17×

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	24,057	$2.08M
2019	20,946	$1.77M
2020	10,906	$1.07M
2021	7,025	$983K
2022	4,373	$660K
2023	10,010	$1.38M
2024incomplete	8,484	$1.32M

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	70%	64,863	7,543	$6.53M
H2023	Supported employment, per 15 minutes	26%	17,909	2,129	$2.45M
H2025	Ongoing support to maintain employment, per 15 minutes	1.6%	927	130	$150K
T1005	Respite care services, up to 15 minutes	1.4%	2,102	369	$131K

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 officialGOULD, TAMI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)