Clinic
Alternatives Counseling, INC
Alternatives Counseling, INC was paid $2.40M by Medicaid between Jul 2018 and Dec 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is H0004, Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes — 85% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoALTERNATIVES COUNSELING, INC
GLEN CARBON, IL 62034
GLEN CARBON, IL 62034
33aNPI1942279435assigned 03/16/2006
33bProvider typeAdult Mental Health Clinic/Center
28Total paid$2.40M
24GClaims29,820
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJul 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Adult Mental Health Clinic/Center providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#4 of 11
Median peer was paid$1.54M
This provider vs. median1.6×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 489 | $20K | |
| 2019 | 4,728 | $253K | |
| 2020 | 3,417 | $255K | |
| 2021 | 4,606 | $343K | |
| 2022 | 4,647 | $403K | |
| 2023 | 5,058 | $456K | |
| 2024incomplete | 6,875 | $666K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H0004 | Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes | 85% | 25,978 | 8,023 | $2.03M |
| H2000 | Comprehensive multidisciplinary evaluation | 15% | 3,842 | 2,424 | $362K |
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 officialADKERSON, DONYA (DIRECTOR)