Agency
Choices Behavioral Health and Wellness
Choices Behavioral Health and Wellness was paid $1.43M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2020, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is H0036, community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutes — 51% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHOICES BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70125
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70125
33aNPI1720478951assigned 01/26/2015
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$1.43M
24GClaims17,736
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2020
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#144 of 374
Median peer was paid$831K
This provider vs. median1.7×
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 | 16,749 | $1.38M | |
| 2019 | 679 | $30K | |
| 2020 | 308 | $17K |
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 | 51% | 7,474 | 2,238 | $727K |
| H2017 | Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes | 47% | 9,501 | 2,387 | $676K |
| H0015 | Alcohol and/or drug services; intensive outpatient (treatment program that operates at least 3 hours/day and at least 3 days/week and is based on an individualized treatment plan), including assessment, counseling; crisis intervention, and activity therapies or education | 1.2% | 308 | 16 | $17K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 177 | 126 | $5K |
| 90837 | Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient | <1% | 276 | 113 | $4K |
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 officialTUCKER, MICHAEL (OWNER)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Choices Behavior Health and Wellness, LLC | Hammond, LA | $448K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.