The Guidance Center - New Center

The Guidance Center - New Center was paid $247K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2020, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is H2017, psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutes — 60% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTHE GUIDANCE CENTER - NEW CENTER
FORT SMITH, AR 72903

33aNPI1790950913assigned 04/29/2008

33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency

28Total paid$247K

24GClaims6,345

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2020

Compared with peers

Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Arkansas

Rank by total paid#63 of 100

Median peer was paid$936K

This provider vs. median0.3×

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.

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
2018	5,891	$226K
2019	364	$14K
2020	90	$7K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
H2017	Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes	60%	4,267	600	$149K
H0004	Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes	16%	580	289	$39K
90853	Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group)	15%	1,010	364	$36K
90837	Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient	6.6%	307	162	$16K
90885		3.0%	181	142	$8K

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.