Agency
Bay Area First Step, INC.
Bay Area First Step, INC. was paid $583K by Medicaid between Jan 2020 and Nov 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is H0005, Alcohol and/or drug services; group counseling by a clinician — 39% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBAY AREA FIRST STEP, INC.
NORTH BEND, OR 97459
NORTH BEND, OR 97459
33aNPI1871970897assigned 04/28/2015
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$583K
24GClaims8,027
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2020 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Oregon
Rank by total paid#41 of 104
Median peer was paid$222K
This provider vs. median2.6×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 476 | $31K | |
| 2021 | 510 | $25K | |
| 2022 | 702 | $38K | |
| 2023 | 2,664 | $195K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,675 | $295K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H0005 | Alcohol and/or drug services; group counseling by a clinician | 39% | 2,971 | 724 | $226K |
| 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 | 16% | 701 | 114 | $91K |
| H0038 | Self-help/peer services, per 15 minutes | 14% | 869 | 314 | $82K |
| H0004 | Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes | 14% | 643 | 341 | $81K |
| H0006 | Alcohol and/or drug services; case management | 12% | 1,203 | 820 | $70K |
| H0048 | Alcohol and/or other drug testing: collection and handling only, specimens other than blood | 4.9% | 1,601 | 907 | $28K |
| H0001 | Alcohol and/or drug assessment | <1% | 13 | 13 | $3K |
| H0002 | Behavioral health screening to determine eligibility for admission to treatment program | <1% | 26 | 25 | $1K |
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 officialSANDEN, STEVEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)