A Better Choice Counseling Service

A Better Choice Counseling Service was paid $69K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2023, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is H0004, Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes — 70% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoA BETTER CHOICE COUNSELING SERVICE
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73109

33aNPI1710231386assigned 11/05/2012

33bProvider typeAddiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor

28Total paid$69K

24GClaims1,089

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2023

Compared with peers

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

Rank by total paid#20 of 24

Median peer was paid$485K

This provider vs. median0.1×

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	411	$24K
2019	207	$10K
2022	177	$12K
2023	294	$23K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
H0004	Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes	70%	713	332	$48K
T1017	Case management, billed per 15 minutesTargeted case management, each 15 minutes	19%	296	106	$13K
H0031	Mental health assessment, by non-physician	7.9%	53	53	$5K
H0032	Mental health service plan development by non-physician	3.4%	27	27	$2K

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 officialWEST, PAUL (DIRECTOR)