Alameda County Behavioral Health Care
Alameda County Behavioral Health Care was paid $1.07B by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Apr 2024, across 65 billing codes. Its largest line is H2015, community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutes — 31% of everything it billed.
OAKLAND, CA 94606
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in California
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.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1,185,391 | $162.81M | |
| 2019 | 1,162,384 | $161.71M | |
| 2020 | 1,099,792 | $159.31M | |
| 2021 | 906,863 | $172.26M | |
| 2022 | 853,545 | $188.24M | |
| 2023 | 815,994 | $186.66M | |
| 2024incomplete | 114,448 | $37.16M |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2015 | Community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutesComprehensive community support services, per 15 minutes | 31% | 1,187,836 | 334,072 | $327.77M |
| S9484 | Crisis intervention mental health services, per hour | 14% | 55,594 | 42,688 | $150.84M |
| H2017 | Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes | 13% | 504,798 | 134,835 | $139.73M |
| H2010 | Comprehensive medication services, per 15 minutes | 8.0% | 303,345 | 159,428 | $85.42M |
| T1017 | Case management, billed per 15 minutesTargeted case management, each 15 minutes | 6.3% | 302,767 | 121,829 | $67.18M |
| H0032 | Mental health service plan development by non-physician | 4.7% | 199,225 | 98,982 | $49.94M |
| H0020 | Alcohol and/or drug services; methadone administration and/or service (provision of the drug by a licensed program) | 3.5% | 2,583,632 | 101,422 | $37.34M |
| H2013 | Psychiatric health facility service, per diem | 2.7% | 11,124 | 1,750 | $29.35M |
| H0018 | Behavioral health; short-term residential (non-hospital residential treatment program), without room and board, per diem | 2.7% | 54,991 | 6,499 | $28.84M |
| H0004 | Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes | 2.4% | 273,964 | 112,779 | $26.07M |
| H2019 | Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes | 2.0% | 65,613 | 7,317 | $21.58M |
| H0019 | Behavioral health; long-term residential (non-medical, non-acute care in a residential treatment program where stay is typically longer than 30 days), without room and board, per diem | 1.8% | 104,914 | 5,558 | $19.49M |
53 more codes
| H0005 | Alcohol and/or drug services; group counseling by a clinician | 1.8% | 221,874 | $19.33M |
| 90837 | Psychotherapy session, about an hour | 1.1% | 40,018 | $12.08M |
| H0034 | Medication training and support, per 15 minutes | <1% | 37,860 | $9.21M |
| H2011 | Crisis intervention service, per 15 minutes | <1% | 15,995 | $6.21M |
| G2212 | Prolonged office or other outpatient evaluation and management service(s) beyond the maximum required time of the primary procedure which has been selected using total time on the date of the primary service; each additional 15 minutes by the physician or qualified healthcare professional, with or without direct patient contact (list separately in addition to cpt codes 99205, 99215, 99483 for office or other outpatient evaluation and management services) (do not report g2212 on the same date of service as 99358, 99359, 99415, 99416). (do not report g2212 for any time unit less than 15 minutes) | <1% | 27,060 | $5.62M |
| 99214 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) | <1% | 8,767 | $4.51M |
| H0015 | Alcohol and/or drug services; intensive outpatient (treatment program that operates at least 3 hours/day and at least 3 days/week and is based on an individualized treatment plan), including assessment, counseling; crisis intervention, and activity therapies or education | <1% | 26,516 | $3.55M |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex) | <1% | 4,319 | $3.33M |
| H0012 | Alcohol and/or drug services; sub-acute detoxification (residential addiction program outpatient) | <1% | 13,836 | $2.95M |
| H0031 | Mental health assessment, by non-physician | <1% | 7,323 | $2.83M |
| H0006 | Alcohol and/or drug services; case management | <1% | 16,658 | $2.36M |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) | <1% | 1,375 | $2.19M |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes | <1% | 8,837 | $2.16M |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | <1% | 4,849 | $1.40M |
| H2012 | Behavioral health day treatment, per hour | <1% | 13,481 | $1.20M |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) | <1% | 2,665 | $973K |
| 99607 | <1% | 3,691 | $732K | |
| 99606 | <1% | 4,063 | $657K | |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 6,573 | $510K |
| 90792 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | <1% | 1,928 | $458K |
| T1001 | Nursing assessment / evaluation | <1% | 2,406 | $453K |
| S5001 | Prescription drug, brand name | <1% | 8,359 | $310K |
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutes | <1% | 1,406 | $207K |
| H0049 | Alcohol and/or drug screening | <1% | 1,994 | $192K |
| H2021 | Community-based wrap-around services, per 15 minutes | <1% | 1,230 | $154K |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | <1% | 434 | $131K |
| H0038 | Self-help/peer services, per 15 minutes | <1% | 563 | $114K |
| 99348 | <1% | 190 | $91K | |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | <1% | 650 | $90K |
| H0033 | Oral medication administration, direct observation | <1% | 413 | $79K |
| H0001 | Alcohol and/or drug assessment | <1% | 296 | $77K |
| G0397 | Alcohol and/or substance (other than tobacco) misuse structured assessment (e.g., audit, dast), and intervention, greater than 30 minutes | <1% | 212 | $76K |
| 90885 | <1% | 303 | $58K | |
| 90840 | <1% | 89 | $42K | |
| 96130 | <1% | 102 | $41K | |
| 90853 | Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group) | <1% | 1,829 | $37K |
| T1007 | Alcohol and/or substance abuse services, treatment plan development and/or modification | <1% | 168 | $35K |
| 96137 | <1% | 40 | $29K | |
| 90839 | <1% | 93 | $25K | |
| 99484 | <1% | 23 | $16K | |
| S5000 | Prescription drug, generic | <1% | 448 | $14K |
| 96131 | <1% | 32 | $14K | |
| 99349 | <1% | 58 | $13K | |
| 90785 | <1% | 919 | $11K | |
| 96136 | <1% | 42 | $8K | |
| 96127 | <1% | 90 | $5K | |
| H2000 | Comprehensive multidisciplinary evaluation | <1% | 23 | $4K |
| G0396 | Alcohol and/or substance (other than tobacco) misuse structured assessment (e.g., audit, dast), and brief intervention 15 to 30 minutes | <1% | 16 | $2K |
| 99347 | <1% | 31 | $352.32 | |
| G9008 | Coordinated care fee, physician coordinated care oversight services | 0% | 368 | $0.00 |
| T1013 | Sign language or oral interpretive services, per 15 minutes | 0% | 40 | $0.00 |
| 90838 | 0% | 37 | $0.00 | |
| 90833 | Psychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient when performed with an E&M service (add-on) | 0% | 22 | $0.00 |
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.
Who's on the registration
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Alameda County | San Leandro, CA | $33.25M |
| Alameda County | Oakland, CA | $29.66M |
| Alameda County | Fremont, CA | $16.50M |
| Alameda County | Pleasanton, CA | $9.78M |
| Alameda County | Oakland, CA | $6.77M |
| Alameda County | Hayward, CA | $2.79M |
| Alameda County | Oakland, CA | $2.29M |
| Alameda County | Oakland, CA | $1.65M |
| Alameda County | Hayward, CA | $1.08M |
| Alameda County | San Leandro, CA | $611K |
| Alameda County | Hayward, CA | $496K |
| Alameda County | Castro Valley, CA | $390K |
| Alameda County | San Leandro, CA | $9K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.