Families First Health Services

Families First Health Services was paid $32.46M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is H2019, therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutes — 60% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFAMILIES FIRST HEALTH SERVICES
INDEPENDENCE, OH 44131

33aNPI1356711477assigned 10/01/2015

33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency

28Total paid$32.46M

24GClaims323,406

24DCodes billed10

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Ohio

Rank by total paid#14 of 417

Median peer was paid$469K

This provider vs. median69×

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	21,824	$1.54M
2019	39,250	$3.47M
2020	46,553	$4.14M
2021	37,779	$3.76M
2022	52,036	$5.32M
2023	69,254	$7.36M
2024incomplete	56,710	$6.87M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
H2019	Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes	60%	162,965	24,397	$19.37M
H0036	Community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutesCommunity psychiatric supportive treatment, face-to-face, per 15 minutes	27%	115,089	15,540	$8.83M
90837	Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient	11%	38,280	11,361	$3.68M
90847	Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes	<1%	3,144	823	$265K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	2,189	1,981	$202K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	<1%	735	364	$49K
90846	Family psychotherapy without the patient present, 50 minutes	<1%	365	153	$25K
90832	Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient	<1%	374	195	$16K
H2017	Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes	<1%	184	41	$15K
H0004	Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes	<1%	81	41	$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 officialGILCHRIST, GIAMAR (PRESIDENT)