Behavioral
Alternatives Counseling Services, LLC
Alternatives Counseling Services, LLC was paid $1.63M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 90846, Family psychotherapy without the patient present, 50 minutes — 42% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoALTERNATIVES COUNSELING SERVICES, LLC
LAS CRUSES, NM 88001
LAS CRUSES, NM 88001
33aNPI1538540091assigned 06/10/2015
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$1.63M
24GClaims18,022
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in New Mexico
Rank by total paid#14 of 159
Median peer was paid$100K
This provider vs. median16×
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 | 3,606 | $220K | |
| 2019 | 2,013 | $171K | |
| 2020 | 2,633 | $240K | |
| 2021 | 2,420 | $240K | |
| 2022 | 2,036 | $209K | |
| 2023 | 2,971 | $311K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,343 | $236K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90846 | Family psychotherapy without the patient present, 50 minutes | 42% | 6,776 | 2,199 | $689K |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | 25% | 3,841 | 1,392 | $403K |
| 90837 | Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient | 15% | 2,569 | 810 | $252K |
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient | 13% | 3,087 | 1,280 | $214K |
| Q3014 | Telehealth originating site facility fee | 2.0% | 692 | 270 | $33K |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 1.8% | 343 | 167 | $30K |
| S9999 | Sales tax | <1% | 693 | 220 | $6K |
| 90785 | <1% | 21 | 12 | $301.10 |
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 officialATENCIO, DEBORAH (CREDENTIALING/CONTRACTING ADMINISTR)