Agency
Best Friends HCS
Best Friends HCS was paid $5.20M by Medicaid between Feb 2021 and Dec 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is H2016, community support for mental illness or disability, billed per day — 80% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBEST FRIENDS HCS
GRAPELAND, TX 75844
GRAPELAND, TX 75844
33aNPI1952711558assigned 05/05/2014
33bProvider typeDevelopmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency
28Total paid$5.20M
24GClaims20,731
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2021 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Developmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#96 of 183
Median peer was paid$6.15M
This provider vs. median0.8×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8,043 | $456K | |
| 2022 | 5,096 | $1.43M | |
| 2023 | 3,435 | $1.63M | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,157 | $1.68M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2016 | Community support for mental illness or disability, billed per dayComprehensive community support services, per diem | 80% | 2,966 | 1,555 | $4.15M |
| M0123 | 9.8% | 6,696 | 242 | $510K | |
| H2014 | Skills training and development, per 15 minutes | 3.8% | 4,988 | 281 | $196K |
| T2020 | Day habilitation, waiver; per diem | 3.3% | 1,404 | 250 | $171K |
| M0116 | 2.1% | 3,147 | 169 | $108K | |
| H2019 | Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes | <1% | 179 | 54 | $29K |
| M0299 | <1% | 786 | 317 | $22K | |
| M0133 | <1% | 62 | 25 | $10K | |
| M0298 | <1% | 469 | 73 | $8K | |
| T1002 | Rn services, up to 15 minutes | <1% | 34 | 30 | $3K |
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 officialSTEINSBO, ALPHIA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)