Central Minnesota Mental Health Center

Central Minnesota Mental Health Center was paid $1.34M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is H2035, Alcohol and/or other drug treatment program, per hour — 97% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCENTRAL MINNESOTA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER
BUFFALO, MN 55313

33aNPI1679694616assigned 04/03/2007

33bProvider typeAddiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor

28Total paid$1.34M

24GClaims11,033

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor providers in Minnesota

Rank by total paid#25 of 96

Median peer was paid$446K

This provider vs. median3.0×

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 Concentration97% of spending on code H2035 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	1,724	$78K
2019	2,386	$200K
2020	1,338	$122K
2021	991	$90K
2022	1,846	$336K
2023	1,420	$270K
2024incomplete	1,328	$242K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
H2035	Alcohol and/or other drug treatment program, per hour	97%	10,789	1,544	$1.30M
H0001	Alcohol and/or drug assessment	3.0%	244	219	$41K

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 officialBARAGA, DAVID (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Same official

Other billing entities under BARAGA, DAVID

Full network →

Provider	Location	Paid
Central Minnesota Mental Health Center	Saint Cloud, MN	$36.16M
Central Minnesota Mental Health Center	Saint Cloud, MN	$11.24M
Central Minnesota Mental Health Center	Monticello, MN	$9.46M
Central Minnesota Mental Health Center	Saint Cloud, MN	$3.43M
Central Minnesota Mental Health Center	Saint Cloud, MN	$2.44M
Central Minnesota Mental Health Center	Monticello, MN	$809K
Central Minnesota Mental Health Center	Saint Cloud, MN	$654K
Central Minnesota Mental Health Center	Saint Cloud, MN	$81K

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