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First Step Arkansas, LLC

First Step Arkansas, LLC was paid $3.13M by Medicaid between Jul 2022 and Dec 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is T1015, a visit at a community health center or clinic (one all-in rate) — 55% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFIRST STEP ARKANSAS, LLC
BLYTHEVILLE, AR 72315
33aNPI1346979663assigned 06/10/2022
28Total paid$3.13M
24GClaims42,230
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJul 2022 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Pediatric Occupational Therapist providers in Arkansas

Rank by total paid#4 of 22
Median peer was paid$198K
This provider vs. median16×

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

$0$100K$200K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
20224,559$257K
202318,691$1.23M
2024incomplete18,980$1.64M
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
T1015 A visit at a community health center or clinic (one all-in rate)Clinic visit/encounter, all-inclusive 55% 25,763 1,580 $1.73M
92507 Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder 16% 5,685 2,458 $505K
97110 Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion 15% 5,650 2,202 $460K
97530 Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes 14% 5,104 1,917 $430K
97162 <1% 13 13 $2K
96112 <1% 15 15 $2K

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 officialASTON, EMILY (CFO)
Parent organizationFIRST STEP ARKANSAS, LLC
Same official

Other billing entities under ASTON, EMILY

Full network →
ProviderLocationPaid
First Step Arkansas, LLCTrumann, AR$7.35M
First Step Arkansas, LLCParagould, AR$3.07M
First Step Arkansas, LLCOsceola, AR$1.56M
First Step Arkansas, LLCNorth Little Rock, AR$455K
First Step Arkansas, LLCBrookland, AR$11K

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