First Step Arkansas, LLC

First Step Arkansas, LLC was paid $16.75M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 22 billing codes. Its largest line is T1015, a visit at a community health center or clinic (one all-in rate) — 53% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFIRST STEP ARKANSAS, LLC
PARAGOULD, AR 72450

33aNPI1710322094assigned 05/01/2013

33bProvider typeDevelopmental Disabilities Clinic/Center

28Total paid$16.75M

24GClaims299,292

24DCodes billed22

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Developmental Disabilities Clinic/Center providers in Arkansas

Rank by total paid#6 of 23

Median peer was paid$6.92M

This provider vs. median2.4×

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	44,162	$1.88M
2019	44,735	$2.61M
2020	42,931	$2.34M
2021	53,253	$2.83M
2022	54,627	$3.05M
2023	37,399	$2.25M
2024incomplete	22,185	$1.78M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
T1015	A visit at a community health center or clinic (one all-in rate)Clinic visit/encounter, all-inclusive	53%	153,311	7,353	$8.83M
97530	Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes	16%	50,625	21,937	$2.70M
92507	Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder	16%	41,319	15,634	$2.62M
97110	Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion	13%	38,070	16,349	$2.14M
97535	Self-care/home management training, each 15 minutes	1.2%	6,503	501	$204K
97532		1.0%	6,586	507	$170K
96112		<1%	313	276	$29K
99367		<1%	1,012	456	$22K
97003		<1%	109	87	$8K
G0515	Development of cognitive skills to improve attention, memory, problem solving (includes compensatory training), direct (one-on-one) patient contact, each 15 minutes	<1%	643	63	$6K
T1023	Screening to determine the appropriateness of consideration of an individual for participation in a specified program, project or treatment protocol, per encounter	<1%	72	40	$4K
97001		<1%	46	40	$4K

10 more codes

T1027	Family training and counseling for child development, per 15 minutes	<1%	345	$3K
97163		<1%	14	$3K
T1024	Evaluation and treatment by an integrated, specialty team contracted to provide coordinated care to multiple or severely handicapped children, per encounter	<1%	168	$2K
92523		<1%	14	$1K
90887		<1%	22	$1K
99203	Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)	<1%	12	$778.80
99201		<1%	24	$623.70
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	17	$489.60
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)	<1%	12	$435.60
97802		<1%	55	$249.20

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 officialJAMES, KEVIN (MANAGER)