First State Behavioral Health Center

First State Behavioral Health Center was paid $1.01M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 95% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFIRST STATE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER
NEWARK, DE 19702

33aNPI1235640673assigned 10/12/2017

33bProvider typeProfessional Counselor

28Total paid$1.01M

24GClaims12,581

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Professional Counselor providers in Delaware

Rank by total paid#2 of 23

Median peer was paid$15K

This provider vs. median66×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Single-Code Concentration95% of spending on code 90837 with only 3 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.

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	507	$0.00
2019	2,245	$94K
2020	1,932	$174K
2021	1,780	$178K
2022	2,273	$226K
2023	2,387	$209K
2024incomplete	1,457	$125K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
90837	Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient	95%	11,159	3,416	$954K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	4.5%	1,368	560	$45K
S5125	Attendant care at home, billed per 15 minutesAttendant care services; per 15 minutes	<1%	54	12	$6K

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 officialJONES, AVON (CEO)