County of Merced
County of Merced was paid $20.43M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is H0020, Alcohol and/or drug services; methadone administration and/or service (provision of the drug by a licensed program) — 38% of everything it billed.
MERCED, CA 95340
Next to other Clinic/Center providers in California
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 | 15,961 | $1.84M | |
| 2019 | 21,860 | $2.71M | |
| 2020 | 24,175 | $2.76M | |
| 2021 | 22,948 | $2.47M | |
| 2022 | 29,722 | $3.47M | |
| 2023 | 65,565 | $4.64M | |
| 2024incomplete | 39,172 | $2.54M |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H0020 | Alcohol and/or drug services; methadone administration and/or service (provision of the drug by a licensed program) | 38% | 102,432 | 19,083 | $7.82M |
| H0019 | Behavioral health; long-term residential (non-medical, non-acute care in a residential treatment program where stay is typically longer than 30 days), without room and board, per diem | 30% | 37,376 | 2,016 | $6.11M |
| H0004 | Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes | 29% | 62,511 | 18,385 | $5.92M |
| S5000 | Prescription drug, generic | 2.8% | 16,812 | 1,190 | $576K |
| H0005 | Alcohol and/or drug services; group counseling by a clinician | <1% | 272 | 55 | $7K |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $93.27M |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $47.60M |
| County of Merced | Los Banos, CA | $8.82M |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $6.39M |
| County of Merced | Los Banos, CA | $4.09M |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $1.13M |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $1.13M |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $425K |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $402K |
| County of Merced | Los Banos, CA | $329K |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $208K |
| County of Merced | Merced, CA | $134K |
| County of Merced | Los Banos, CA | $86K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.