County of Merced
County of Merced was paid $329K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and May 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is H0004, Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes — 62% of everything it billed.
LOS BANOS, CA 93635
Next to other Substance Use Disorder Rehabilitation Clinic/Center providers in California
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.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 708 | $19K | |
| 2019 | 545 | $50K | |
| 2020 | 386 | $52K | |
| 2021 | 282 | $36K | |
| 2022 | 466 | $59K | |
| 2023 | 560 | $67K | |
| 2024incomplete | 387 | $46K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H0004 | Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes | 62% | 1,202 | 612 | $204K |
| H0005 | Alcohol and/or drug services; group counseling by a clinician | 27% | 1,454 | 471 | $89K |
| H0006 | Alcohol and/or drug services; case management | 9.0% | 631 | 385 | $30K |
| T1017 | Case management, billed per 15 minutesTargeted case management, each 15 minutes | 1.9% | 47 | 42 | $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.
Who's on the registration
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $93.27M |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $47.60M |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $20.43M |
| County of Merced | Los Banos, CA | $8.82M |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $6.39M |
| County of Merced | Los Banos, CA | $4.09M |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $1.13M |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $1.13M |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $425K |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $402K |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $208K |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $134K |
| County of Merced | Los Banos, CA | $86K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.