First Step Recovery Center
First Step Recovery Center was paid $264K by Medicaid between Sep 2020 and Dec 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is H2019, therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutes — 43% of everything it billed.
REYNOLDSBURG, OH 43068
Next to other Mental Health Clinic/Center (Including Community Mental Health Center) providers in Ohio
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 19 | $1K | |
| 2022 | 304 | $23K | |
| 2023 | 2,258 | $98K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,872 | $142K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2019 | Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes | 43% | 3,200 | 1,038 | $112K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 36% | 1,271 | 928 | $95K |
| 90792 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | 9.8% | 214 | 207 | $26K |
| 99214 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity | 5.9% | 128 | 104 | $15K |
| 90853 | Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group) | 3.9% | 501 | 161 | $10K |
| H2017 | Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes | <1% | 105 | 91 | $3K |
| H0036 | Community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutesCommunity psychiatric supportive treatment, face-to-face, per 15 minutes | <1% | 19 | 13 | $1K |
| 90837 | Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient | <1% | 15 | 12 | $1K |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Monarch Health and Recovery LLC | West Portsmouth, OH | $7.50M |
| Southwestern Recovery Center, LLC | Grove City, OH | $5.47M |
| Reach for Tomorrow INC | Greenfield, OH | $4.00M |
| Memorial Hermann Health System | Houston, TX | $3.31M |
| Blue Jackets Braces | Delaware, OH | $916K |
| Southwestern Recovery Center, LLC | Columbus, OH | $657K |
| Addiction Angels of America, LLC | Columbus, OH | $521K |
| First Step Recovery Center | Lancaster, OH | $406K |
| Quest Recovery Center, LLC | Mount Vernon, OH | $181K |
| Moon Family & Behavioral Health LLC | Pickerington, OH | $144K |
| Reach for Tomorrow INC | Greenfield, OH | $106K |
| Southwestern Recovery Center, LLC | Grove City, OH | $53K |
| Southwestern Recovery Center, LLC | Columbus, OH | $49K |
| Pain Evaluation and Management Center of Ohio, INC. | Washington Township, OH | $44K |
| Cardinal Treatment Centers INC | Portsmouth, OH | $38K |
| Monarch Health and Recovery LLC | West Portsmouth, OH | $27K |
| Columbus Obstetric and Gynecology Center | Columbus, OH | $22K |
| Cornerstone Project | Dayton, OH | $9K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.