The Friend Agency

The Friend Agency was paid $432K by Medicaid between Apr 2024 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is H0015, Alcohol and/or drug services; intensive outpatient (treatment program that operates at least 3 hours/day and at least 3 days/week and is based on an individualized treatment plan), including assessment, counseling; crisis intervention, and activity therapies or education — 80% of everything it billed.

Compared with peers

Next to other Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor providers in Ohio

Rank by total paid#96 of 540

Median peer was paid$25K

This provider vs. median18×

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
2024incomplete	5,101	$432K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
H0015	Alcohol and/or drug services; intensive outpatient (treatment program that operates at least 3 hours/day and at least 3 days/week and is based on an individualized treatment plan), including assessment, counseling; crisis intervention, and activity therapies or education	80%	3,503	622	$344K
90837	Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient	10%	573	192	$43K
H0006	Alcohol and/or drug services; case management	10.0%	832	289	$43K
H0048	Alcohol and/or other drug testing: collection and handling only, specimens other than blood	<1%	193	130	$2K

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 officialSCHWARCK, JASON (DIRECTOR)