Brighter Beginnings

Brighter Beginnings was paid $13.15M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 60 billing codes. Its largest line is T1015, a visit at a community health center or clinic (one all-in rate) — 92% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBRIGHTER BEGINNINGS
RICHMOND, CA 94804

33aNPI1942638978assigned 10/30/2013

33bProvider typeFederally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)

28Total paid$13.15M

24GClaims123,310

24DCodes billed60

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) providers in California

Rank by total paid#251 of 826

Median peer was paid$4.05M

This provider vs. median3.3×

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	9,789	$1.21M
2019	16,124	$1.43M
2020	22,302	$2.17M
2021	23,351	$2.32M
2022	16,904	$1.86M
2023	17,989	$2.11M
2024incomplete	16,851	$2.06M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
T1015	A visit at a community health center or clinic (one all-in rate)Clinic visit/encounter, all-inclusive	92%	64,025	46,619	$12.06M
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	4.3%	27,414	21,160	$561K
99214	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity	1.2%	3,327	2,983	$160K
99212	Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward	<1%	4,363	3,769	$69K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	<1%	1,217	764	$55K
94760		<1%	9,124	8,031	$49K
99215	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis	<1%	496	451	$36K
99211	Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity	<1%	2,255	2,046	$32K
90832	Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient	<1%	418	248	$24K
96110	Developmental screening, with scoring and documentation, per standardized instrument	<1%	295	282	$15K
87635	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe	<1%	367	352	$8K
83036	Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C)	<1%	904	897	$8K

48 more codes

99395	Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, 18-39 years	<1%	81	$8K
90471	Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine	<1%	996	$7K
99396	Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, 40-64 years	<1%	69	$6K
G9920	Screening performed and negative	<1%	198	$6K
99203	Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)	<1%	127	$5K
90756		<1%	174	$5K
90837	Psychotherapy session, about an hour	<1%	194	$5K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	26	$4K
96127		<1%	770	$4K
90686		<1%	314	$3K
99393	Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, late childhood (5-11 years)	<1%	81	$3K
82274		<1%	142	$2K
81003		<1%	1,005	$2K
90688		<1%	107	$2K
92551		<1%	184	$1K
99173		<1%	1,758	$1K
90674		<1%	52	$1K
99394	Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, adolescent (12-17 years)	<1%	19	$1K
97802		<1%	165	$921.19
90460	Immunization administration through 18 years of age via any route, first or only component	<1%	1,076	$719.32
90480		<1%	33	$660.00
90651		<1%	13	$645.30
91320		<1%	13	$625.00
90715		<1%	13	$594.84
90734		<1%	13	$574.56
90656		<1%	148	$508.26
90661		<1%	72	$500.00
36416		<1%	298	$405.00
99202	Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, straightforward	<1%	14	$391.61
85018		<1%	169	$354.78
87210		<1%	90	$336.60
Q0091	Screening papanicolaou smear; obtaining, preparing and conveyance of cervical or vaginal smear to laboratory	<1%	37	$321.00
96372	Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular	<1%	12	$216.59
82962		<1%	90	$195.30
59425		<1%	16	$112.36
97803		<1%	12	$27.42
92552		<1%	45	$24.36
3725F		<1%	89	$18.00
81000		<1%	12	$10.84
91307		0%	38	$0.00
99384		0%	13	$0.00
99383		0%	17	$0.00
90472	Immunization administration, each additional vaccine (list separately)	0%	172	$0.00
96160		0%	60	$0.00
99392	Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, early childhood (1-4 years)	0%	26	$0.00
90461		0%	22	$0.00
G0071	Payment for communication technology-based services for 5 minutes or more of a virtual (non-face-to-face) communication between an rural health clinic (rhc) or federally qualified health center (fqhc) practitioner and rhc or fqhc patient, or 5 minutes or more of remote evaluation of recorded video and/or images by an rhc or fqhc practitioner, occurring in lieu of an office visit; rhc or fqhc only	0%	18	$0.00
90658		0%	12	$0.00

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 officialMCCULLOUGH, BARBARA (CEO)