Behavioral
Start Fresh Counseling Center, INC
Start Fresh Counseling Center, INC was paid $288K by Medicaid between Jan 2019 and Mar 2022, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 54% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSTART FRESH COUNSELING CENTER, INC
BRANDON, FL 33510
BRANDON, FL 33510
33aNPI1376930362assigned 04/17/2015
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$288K
24GClaims4,353
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2019 – Mar 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Florida
Rank by total paid#126 of 409
Median peer was paid$74K
This provider vs. median3.9×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1,727 | $104K | |
| 2020 | 1,220 | $90K | |
| 2021 | 1,086 | $76K | |
| 2022 | 320 | $19K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90837 | Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient | 54% | 1,958 | 627 | $156K |
| H2019 | Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes | 42% | 1,686 | 464 | $122K |
| H0031 | Mental health assessment, by non-physician | 2.2% | 304 | 235 | $6K |
| H0032 | Mental health service plan development by non-physician | <1% | 273 | 249 | $2K |
| H2000 | Comprehensive multidisciplinary evaluation | <1% | 30 | 28 | $2K |
| H2010 | Comprehensive medication services, per 15 minutes | <1% | 77 | 77 | $332.65 |
| H0046 | Mental health services, not otherwise specified | 0% | 25 | 25 | $0.00 |
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 officialMERRITT, CASANDRA (CEO)
Parent organizationSTART FRESH COUNSELING CENTER, INC