Clinic
Fresh Start Therapeutic Services, LLC
Fresh Start Therapeutic Services, LLC was paid $1.66M by Medicaid between Oct 2022 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 81% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFRESH START THERAPEUTIC SERVICES, LLC
JOPPA, MD 21085
JOPPA, MD 21085
33aNPI1730809732assigned 08/30/2022
28Total paid$1.66M
24GClaims12,272
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthOct 2022 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Clinic/Center (Including Community Mental Health Center) providers in Maryland
Rank by total paid#150 of 553
Median peer was paid$501K
This provider vs. median3.3×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 632 | $90K | |
| 2023 | 5,151 | $667K | |
| 2024incomplete | 6,489 | $906K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 81% | 10,013 | 3,504 | $1.34M |
| 90837 | Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient | 8.1% | 981 | 530 | $135K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 7.2% | 501 | 485 | $119K |
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient | 2.7% | 593 | 305 | $45K |
| 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 | 1.2% | 147 | 127 | $20K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 14 | 13 | $3K |
| 90853 | Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group) | <1% | 23 | 12 | $1K |
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 officialNICHOLS, TEKORA (CLINICAL MANAGER)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh Start Therapeutic Services, LLC | Joppa, MD | $3.70M |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.