Agency
Starfish Hero
Starfish Hero was paid $8.89M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is H2019, therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutes — 72% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSTARFISH HERO
ARCATA, CA 95521
ARCATA, CA 95521
33aNPI1457778557assigned 03/26/2014
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$8.89M
24GClaims15,315
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in California
Rank by total paid#102 of 633
Median peer was paid$779K
This provider vs. median11×
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 | 2,483 | $1.75M | |
| 2019 | 2,967 | $1.80M | |
| 2020 | 2,398 | $1.49M | |
| 2021 | 2,061 | $1.06M | |
| 2022 | 2,113 | $1.00M | |
| 2023 | 1,900 | $993K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,393 | $793K |
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 | 72% | 6,947 | 3,802 | $6.38M |
| H0046 | Mental health services, not otherwise specified | 25% | 5,254 | 3,638 | $2.18M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 3.7% | 3,114 | 3,050 | $330K |
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 officialFLICKER, KIER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Multiplicity Therapeutic Services | Arcata, CA | $10.95M |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.