Brighter Beginnings Mentorship Program

Brighter Beginnings Mentorship Program was paid $1.25M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2022, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is H0036, community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutes — 42% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBRIGHTER BEGINNINGS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
BAKER, LA 70714

33aNPI1861744070assigned 10/11/2012

33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency

28Total paid$1.25M

24GClaims18,238

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jul 2022

Compared with peers

Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#157 of 374

Median peer was paid$831K

This provider vs. median1.5×

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
2018	6,517	$602K
2019	8,133	$407K
2020	2,409	$140K
2021	863	$81K
2022	316	$23K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
H0036	Community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutesCommunity psychiatric supportive treatment, face-to-face, per 15 minutes	42%	4,786	566	$524K
H2017	Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes	42%	7,606	917	$522K
90837	Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient	15%	5,634	812	$188K
S9485	Crisis intervention mental health services, per diem	1.1%	42	42	$14K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	170	129	$5K

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 officialFRANKLIN, LAMETRA (MANAGER)