Agency
First Choice Counseling, LLC
First Choice Counseling, LLC was paid $653K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is H2017, psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutes — 56% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFIRST CHOICE COUNSELING, LLC
BASTROP, LA 71220
BASTROP, LA 71220
33aNPI1558770867assigned 08/12/2014
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$653K
24GClaims9,268
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jul 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#207 of 374
Median peer was paid$831K
This provider vs. median0.8×
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 | 2,151 | $206K | |
| 2019 | 244 | $9K | |
| 2021 | 1,526 | $119K | |
| 2022 | 1,271 | $78K | |
| 2023 | 3,424 | $207K | |
| 2024incomplete | 652 | $33K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2017 | Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes | 56% | 5,865 | 1,004 | $363K |
| H0036 | Community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutesCommunity psychiatric supportive treatment, face-to-face, per 15 minutes | 38% | 2,851 | 884 | $247K |
| 90792 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | 2.8% | 238 | 220 | $18K |
| 96156 | 1.7% | 103 | 78 | $11K | |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 1.6% | 164 | 145 | $10K |
| 90837 | Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient | <1% | 47 | 40 | $3K |
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 officialFREEMAN, TONIA (COO)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Guidance Personal Care LLC | Monroe, LA | $2.68M |
| Guidance Personal Care LLC | Monroe, LA | $1.46M |
| Guidance LLC | Monroe, LA | $18K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.