The Guidance Center - Primary Care Clinic

The Guidance Center - Primary Care Clinic was paid $37K by Medicaid between Jul 2021 and Dec 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 62% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTHE GUIDANCE CENTER - PRIMARY CARE CLINIC
FORT SMITH, AR 72903

33aNPI1730787037assigned 10/09/2020

33bProvider typeFamily Medicine Physician

28Total paid$37K

24GClaims1,628

24DCodes billed6

24AFirst – last monthJul 2021 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in Arkansas

Rank by total paid#253 of 437

Median peer was paid$70K

This provider vs. median0.5×

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.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official HOLWICK, AARON controls 13+ related entities in our dataset. Read more

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
2021	91	$3K
2022	487	$14K
2023	668	$13K
2024incomplete	382	$7K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
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	62%	824	548	$23K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	31%	659	497	$11K
99204	Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity	7.6%	76	69	$3K
80305		<1%	38	26	$29.92
81002		<1%	13	12	$21.96
96372	Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular	0%	18	12	$0.00

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 officialHOLWICK, AARON (CEO)

Parent organizationWESTERN ARKANSAS COUNSELING & GUIDANCE CENTER, INC

Same official

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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.