Clinic
The First Step Youth & Family Services
The First Step Youth & Family Services was paid $1.10M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is H0036, community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutes — 57% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTHE FIRST STEP YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES
GRETNA, LA 70053
GRETNA, LA 70053
33aNPI1710385851assigned 12/05/2014
28Total paid$1.10M
24GClaims19,390
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Clinic/Center (Including Community Mental Health Center) providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#60 of 122
Median peer was paid$1.01M
This provider vs. median1.1×
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 | 7,110 | $468K | |
| 2019 | 724 | $33K | |
| 2020 | 84 | $7K | |
| 2021 | 32 | $1K | |
| 2022 | 2,041 | $120K | |
| 2023 | 4,300 | $240K | |
| 2024incomplete | 5,099 | $236K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H0036 | Community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutesCommunity psychiatric supportive treatment, face-to-face, per 15 minutes | 57% | 9,917 | 2,214 | $633K |
| H2017 | Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes | 42% | 9,304 | 2,157 | $461K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 169 | 164 | $10K |
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 officialALEXIS, KENDRA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)