County of Kern
County of Kern was paid $6.60M by Medicaid between Mar 2019 and Nov 2024, across 16 billing codes. Its largest line is H0006, Alcohol and/or drug services; case management — 47% of everything it billed.
BAKERSFIELD, CA 93301
Next to other Counselor providers in California
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3,411 | $297K | |
| 2020 | 4,044 | $504K | |
| 2021 | 6,449 | $1.51M | |
| 2022 | 9,588 | $2.05M | |
| 2023 | 11,038 | $1.64M | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,185 | $603K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H0006 | Alcohol and/or drug services; case management | 47% | 20,097 | 10,056 | $3.11M |
| H0004 | Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes | 26% | 6,043 | 4,945 | $1.69M |
| H0005 | Alcohol and/or drug services; group counseling by a clinician | 11% | 3,710 | 862 | $712K |
| T1017 | Case management, billed per 15 minutesTargeted case management, each 15 minutes | 8.4% | 4,483 | 2,046 | $556K |
| H0049 | Alcohol and/or drug screening | 4.8% | 3,480 | 2,287 | $316K |
| H0034 | Medication training and support, per 15 minutes | 1.0% | 316 | 134 | $69K |
| H2015 | Community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutesComprehensive community support services, per 15 minutes | <1% | 83 | 64 | $54K |
| G2212 | Prolonged office or other outpatient evaluation and management service(s) beyond the maximum required time of the primary procedure which has been selected using total time on the date of the primary service; each additional 15 minutes by the physician or qualified healthcare professional, with or without direct patient contact (list separately in addition to cpt codes 99205, 99215, 99483 for office or other outpatient evaluation and management services) (do not report g2212 on the same date of service as 99358, 99359, 99415, 99416). (do not report g2212 for any time unit less than 15 minutes) | <1% | 139 | 92 | $23K |
| H0001 | Alcohol and/or drug assessment | <1% | 47 | 47 | $23K |
| G0397 | Alcohol and/or substance (other than tobacco) misuse structured assessment (e.g., audit, dast), and intervention, greater than 30 minutes | <1% | 61 | 52 | $11K |
| T2024 | Service assessment/plan of care development, waiver | <1% | 16 | 15 | $11K |
| H0031 | Mental health assessment, by non-physician | <1% | 17 | 17 | $11K |
4 more codes
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.
Who's on the registration
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| County of Kern | Bakersfield, CA | $473.44M |
| County of Kern | Bakersfield, CA | $45.24M |
| County of Kern | Bakersfield, CA | $44.53M |
| County of Kern | Bakersfield, CA | $41.43M |
| County of Kern | Bakersfield, CA | $36.61M |
| County of Kern | Bakersfield, CA | $23.77M |
| County of Kern | Bakersfield, CA | $18.49M |
| County of Kern | Bakersfield, CA | $17.84M |
| County of Kern | Bakersfield, CA | $9.17M |
| County of Kern | Bakersfield, CA | $1.21M |
| County of Kern | Bakersfield, CA | $32K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.