Ascend Behavioral Health and Wellness
Ascend Behavioral Health and Wellness was paid $22.65M by Medicaid between Oct 2018 and Nov 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is H0018, Behavioral health; short-term residential (non-hospital residential treatment program), without room and board, per diem — 98% of everything it billed.
PHOENIX, AZ 85086
Next to other Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility providers in Arizona
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.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 81 | $137K | |
| 2019 | 1,618 | $1.91M | |
| 2020 | 2,369 | $3.65M | |
| 2021 | 3,822 | $5.26M | |
| 2022 | 5,604 | $6.20M | |
| 2023 | 3,393 | $3.81M | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,192 | $1.68M |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H0018 | Behavioral health; short-term residential (non-hospital residential treatment program), without room and board, per diem | 98% | 15,137 | 7,990 | $22.23M |
| H0046 | Mental health services, not otherwise specified | 1.8% | 2,942 | 1,558 | $419K |
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.
Who's on the registration
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Ascend Behavioral Health and Wellness,llc | Phoenix, AZ | $7.14M |
| Ascend Behavioral Health and Wellness | Phoenix, AZ | $1.31M |
| Ascend Behavioral Health and Wellness,llc | Phoenix, AZ | $246K |
| Ascend Behavioral Health and Wellness,llc | Phoenix, AZ | $168K |
| Ascend Behavioral Health and Wellness,llc | Phoenix, AZ | $149K |
| Ascend Behavioral Health and Wellness,llc | Phoenix, AZ | $124K |
| Ascend Behavioral Health and Wellness,llc | Phoenix, AZ | $121K |
| Ascend Behavioral Health and Wellness,llc | Phoenix, AZ | $110K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.