Agency
First Step,llc
First Step,llc was paid $6.60M by Medicaid between Apr 2019 and Nov 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 92507, Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder — 30% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFIRST STEP,LLC
BROOKLYN, NY 11235
BROOKLYN, NY 11235
33aNPI1861921348assigned 06/08/2017
33bProvider typeCase Management Agency
28Total paid$6.60M
24GClaims85,937
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthApr 2019 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Case Management Agency providers in New York
Rank by total paid#58 of 180
Median peer was paid$1.76M
This provider vs. median3.7×
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 | 6,584 | $473K | |
| 2020 | 9,762 | $676K | |
| 2021 | 16,793 | $1.25M | |
| 2022 | 19,343 | $1.53M | |
| 2023 | 19,844 | $1.59M | |
| 2024incomplete | 13,611 | $1.09M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 30% | 25,356 | 2,984 | $1.96M |
| 97155 | Adaptive behavior treatment with protocol modification, administered by physician, each 15 minutes | 25% | 15,429 | 817 | $1.63M |
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities, direct patient contact, each 15 minutes | 19% | 16,332 | 2,848 | $1.26M |
| H2017 | Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes | 12% | 10,106 | 1,510 | $778K |
| 97110 | Therapeutic procedure, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, flexibility and range of motion | 5.5% | 4,913 | 1,295 | $366K |
| T1017 | Case management, billed per 15 minutesTargeted case management, each 15 minutes | 5.3% | 8,716 | 2,361 | $349K |
| 92557 | 2.5% | 4,019 | 1,095 | $165K | |
| H2019 | Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes | 1.1% | 976 | 147 | $74K |
| 96112 | <1% | 90 | 54 | $25K |
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 officialNIZHNER, OLGA (CEO)