The Behavioral Growing Tree

The Behavioral Growing Tree was paid $1.12M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and May 2022, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 97153, applied behavior analysis (autism therapy), per 15 minutes — 58% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTHE BEHAVIORAL GROWING TREE
CENTENNIAL, CO 80112

33aNPI1629358684assigned 08/23/2011

33bProvider typeBehavioral Analyst

28Total paid$1.12M

24GClaims8,337

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – May 2022

Compared with peers

Next to other Behavioral Analyst providers in Colorado

Rank by total paid#34 of 114

Median peer was paid$189K

This provider vs. median5.9×

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	2,396	$360K
2019	2,394	$318K
2020	2,769	$337K
2021	547	$69K
2022	231	$30K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
97153	Applied behavior analysis (autism therapy), per 15 minutesAdaptive behavior treatment by protocol, administered by technician, each 15 minutes	58%	5,115	463	$643K
H0046	Mental health services, not otherwise specified	32%	2,396	211	$360K
97155	Adaptive behavior treatment with protocol modification, administered by physician, each 15 minutes	10%	826	341	$112K

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 officialACEVEDO, MARICELA (OWNER/ BEHAVIOR ANALYST)