Behavioral
Kara Living Centers, INC
Kara Living Centers, INC was paid $7.56M by Medicaid between Feb 2021 and Nov 2023, across 16 billing codes. Its largest line is H2016, community support for mental illness or disability, billed per day — 70% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoKARA LIVING CENTERS, INC
HOUSTON, TX 77063
HOUSTON, TX 77063
33aNPI1417002346assigned 01/23/2007
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$7.56M
24GClaims62,110
24DCodes billed16
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2021 – Nov 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#7 of 311
Median peer was paid$71K
This provider vs. median107×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1,499 | $133K | |
| 2022 | 30,770 | $3.81M | |
| 2023 | 29,841 | $3.61M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2016 | Community support for mental illness or disability, billed per dayComprehensive community support services, per diem | 70% | 24,235 | 1,135 | $5.27M |
| H2014 | Skills training and development, per 15 minutes | 8.2% | 9,570 | 489 | $621K |
| T2020 | Day habilitation, waiver; per diem | 7.2% | 9,955 | 612 | $542K |
| M0152 | 4.9% | 2,135 | 79 | $373K | |
| M0150 | 3.8% | 1,773 | 67 | $286K | |
| T1002 | Rn services, up to 15 minutes | 2.3% | 8,360 | 1,006 | $177K |
| M0116 | 1.1% | 2,345 | 129 | $81K | |
| M0299 | 1.1% | 1,859 | 436 | $80K | |
| M0118 | <1% | 1,512 | 79 | $61K | |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | <1% | 83 | 76 | $43K |
| M0113 | <1% | 24 | 24 | $11K | |
| H2019 | Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes | <1% | 100 | 36 | $5K |
4 more codes
| A9153 | Multiple vitamins, with or without minerals and trace elements, oral, per dose, not otherwise specified | <1% | 32 | $3K |
| M0315 | <1% | 58 | $2K | |
| T2025 | Waiver services not otherwise specified | <1% | 31 | $2K |
| M0248 | Intravenous infusion, sotrovimab, includes infusion and post administration monitoring in the home or residence; this includes a beneficiary's home that has been made provider-based to the hospital during the covid-19 public health emergency | <1% | 38 | $194.92 |
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 officialIZOBO, OLO (CEO)