Higher Ground Services LLC

Higher Ground Services LLC was paid $5.68M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is H0004, Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes — 78% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoHIGHER GROUND SERVICES LLC
BREWER, ME 04412

33aNPI1265767446assigned 10/06/2009

33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency

28Total paid$5.68M

24GClaims66,790

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Maine

Rank by total paid#33 of 116

Median peer was paid$1.80M

This provider vs. median3.2×

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	7,366	$578K
2019	9,400	$725K
2020	12,158	$1.04M
2021	11,980	$1.01M
2022	11,186	$942K
2023	10,548	$1.01M
2024incomplete	4,152	$379K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
H0004	Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes	78%	53,424	18,558	$4.44M
H2015	Community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutesComprehensive community support services, per 15 minutes	20%	10,245	2,745	$1.15M
90837	Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient	1.2%	2,979	1,081	$70K
H2000	Comprehensive multidisciplinary evaluation	<1%	142	126	$20K

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 officialLAPIERRE, JAMES (CLINICAL DIRECTOR)