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Lake Wellness Center, LLC

Lake Wellness Center, LLC was paid $1.12M by Medicaid between Mar 2020 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is H0015, Alcohol and/or drug services; intensive outpatient (treatment program that operates at least 3 hours/day and at least 3 days/week and is based on an individualized treatment plan), including assessment, counseling; crisis intervention, and activity therapies or education — 99% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoLAKE WELLNESS CENTER, LLC
METAIRIE, LA 70006
33aNPI1518424258assigned 03/01/2019
28Total paid$1.12M
24GClaims9,622
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthMar 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Facility providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#43 of 54
Median peer was paid$4.03M
This provider vs. median0.3×

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.

Single-Code Concentration99% of spending on code H0015 with only 3 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$20K$40K$60K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
20202,356$296K
20211,733$214K
20223,149$361K
20231,409$120K
2024incomplete975$125K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
H0015 Alcohol and/or drug services; intensive outpatient (treatment program that operates at least 3 hours/day and at least 3 days/week and is based on an individualized treatment plan), including assessment, counseling; crisis intervention, and activity therapies or education 99% 9,374 1,084 $1.10M
H0001 Alcohol and/or drug assessment <1% 124 120 $8K
99214 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity <1% 124 88 $5K

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 officialVIGER, ROY (OWNER)
Same official

Other billing entities under VIGER, ROY

Full network →
ProviderLocationPaid
Steps Recovery Solutions, LLCPineville, LA$8.68M
Addiction SpecialistsMetairie, LA$419K

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.