Clinic
First Class Group, INC.
First Class Group, INC. was paid $1.21M by Medicaid between Dec 2019 and Dec 2024, across 2 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) — 60% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFIRST CLASS GROUP, INC.
HOUSTON, TX 77022
HOUSTON, TX 77022
33aNPI1841501293assigned 06/30/2010
33bProvider typeMethadone Clinic
28Total paid$1.21M
24GClaims88,628
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthDec 2019 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Methadone Clinic providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#4 of 16
Median peer was paid$303K
This provider vs. median4.0×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 24 | $1K | |
| 2020 | 7,301 | $66K | |
| 2021 | 21,283 | $222K | |
| 2022 | 20,319 | $284K | |
| 2023 | 24,574 | $417K | |
| 2024incomplete | 15,127 | $218K |
Box 24 · Service lines
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) | 60% | 81,018 | 2,993 | $731K |
| H0004 | Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes | 40% | 7,610 | 2,909 | $478K |
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 officialSHAMSI, FARRUKH (PRESIDENT/PROGRAM SPONSOR)