Alternative Behavioral Care

Alternative Behavioral Care was paid $1.62M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2020, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is H0018, Behavioral health; short-term residential (non-hospital residential treatment program), without room and board, per diem — 99% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoALTERNATIVE BEHAVIORAL CARE
SAINT PETERS, MO 63376

33aNPI1578637625assigned 11/20/2006

33bProvider typeMental Health Clinic/Center (Including Community Mental Health Center)

28Total paid$1.62M

24GClaims2,157

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2020

Compared with peers

Next to other Mental Health Clinic/Center (Including Community Mental Health Center) providers in Missouri

Rank by total paid#7 of 34

Median peer was paid$74K

This provider vs. median22×

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 H0018 with only 2 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.

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	1,578	$1.43M
2019	537	$188K
2020	42	$2K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
H0018	Behavioral health; short-term residential (non-hospital residential treatment program), without room and board, per diem	99%	1,559	253	$1.60M
90853	Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group)	1.3%	598	446	$21K

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 officialCOPELAND, KARRIE (BUSINESS MANAGER)

Same official

Other billing entities under COPELAND, KARRIE

Full network →

Provider	Location	Paid
Lifetime Psychiatry LLC	Saint Peters, MO	$56K

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