Behavioral
The Sterling Center Organization INC.
The Sterling Center Organization INC. was paid $4.47M by Medicaid between Aug 2019 and Dec 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is H2019, therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutes — 82% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTHE STERLING CENTER ORGANIZATION INC.
FORT MYERS, FL 33901
FORT MYERS, FL 33901
33aNPI1568907277assigned 01/04/2017
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$4.47M
24GClaims57,878
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthAug 2019 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Florida
Rank by total paid#20 of 409
Median peer was paid$74K
This provider vs. median60×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 74 | $5K | |
| 2020 | 909 | $61K | |
| 2021 | 1,606 | $96K | |
| 2022 | 1,229 | $69K | |
| 2023 | 20,443 | $1.45M | |
| 2024incomplete | 33,617 | $2.79M |
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 | 82% | 45,950 | 16,715 | $3.68M |
| H0031 | Mental health assessment, by non-physician | 9.8% | 7,379 | 4,648 | $436K |
| H0032 | Mental health service plan development by non-physician | 5.3% | 2,764 | 2,669 | $238K |
| T1017 | Case management, billed per 15 minutesTargeted case management, each 15 minutes | 2.1% | 998 | 385 | $94K |
| H2017 | Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes | <1% | 787 | 224 | $25K |
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 officialSTERLING, JAMIE (PRESIDENT)