The Guidance Center - Crisis Stabilization Unit

The Guidance Center - Crisis Stabilization Unit was paid $4.52M by Medicaid between May 2018 and Nov 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is H0018, Behavioral health; short-term residential (non-hospital residential treatment program), without room and board, per diem — 68% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTHE GUIDANCE CENTER - CRISIS STABILIZATION UNIT
FORT SMITH, AR 72903

33aNPI1316023591assigned 10/31/2006

33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency

28Total paid$4.52M

24GClaims16,331

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthMay 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Arkansas

Rank by total paid#24 of 100

Median peer was paid$936K

This provider vs. median4.8×

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.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official HOLWICK, AARON controls 13+ related entities in our dataset. Read more

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	2,687	$279K
2019	2,629	$647K
2020	2,258	$635K
2021	3,209	$886K
2022	1,666	$652K
2023	2,964	$1.01M
2024incomplete	918	$411K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
H0018	Behavioral health; short-term residential (non-hospital residential treatment program), without room and board, per diem	68%	9,360	2,665	$3.06M
H2020	Therapeutic behavioral services, per diem	32%	6,814	285	$1.45M
H2019	Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes	<1%	44	15	$1K
99214	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity	<1%	113	92	$337.24

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 officialHOLWICK, AARON (CEO)

Parent organizationWESTERN ARKANSAS COUNSELING & GUIDANCE CENTER, INC

Same official

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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.