Behavioral
Stepping Stone Family Services INC.
Stepping Stone Family Services INC. was paid $11.06M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is H2016, community support for mental illness or disability, billed per day — 54% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSTEPPING STONE FAMILY SERVICES INC.
WEST DES MOINES, IA 50265
WEST DES MOINES, IA 50265
33aNPI1447585377assigned 10/09/2009
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$11.06M
24GClaims127,293
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Iowa
Rank by total paid#3 of 277
Median peer was paid$48K
This provider vs. median229×
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 | 16,639 | $1.36M | |
| 2019 | 19,772 | $1.59M | |
| 2020 | 17,136 | $1.40M | |
| 2021 | 14,917 | $1.25M | |
| 2022 | 16,788 | $1.51M | |
| 2023 | 19,587 | $1.82M | |
| 2024incomplete | 22,454 | $2.13M |
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 | 54% | 59,043 | 10,617 | $6.02M |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 16% | 25,743 | 12,705 | $1.79M |
| 99490 | Ccm add 20min | 14% | 8,819 | 8,162 | $1.56M |
| H2019 | Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes | 9.0% | 15,502 | 3,830 | $1000K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 2.4% | 2,812 | 2,661 | $271K |
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient | 1.5% | 3,831 | 2,921 | $164K |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | 1.2% | 1,838 | 1,359 | $136K |
| 90837 | Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient | 1.1% | 1,432 | 848 | $118K |
| G9008 | Coordinated care fee, physician coordinated care oversight services | 0% | 8,172 | 7,690 | $0.00 |
| G0506 | Comprehensive assessment of and care planning for patients requiring chronic care management services (list separately in addition to primary monthly care management service) | 0% | 87 | 83 | $0.00 |
| H0038 | Self-help/peer services, per 15 minutes | 0% | 14 | 12 | $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 officialHERMAN, AARON (VICE PRESIDENT)