1ST Choice Healthcare Services, LLC

1ST Choice Healthcare Services, LLC was paid $2.60M by Medicaid between Jun 2018 and Mar 2023, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is G0483, Drug test(s), definitive, utilizing (1) drug identification methods able to identify individual drugs and distinguish between structural isomers (but not necessarily stereoisomers), including, but not limited to gc/ms (any type, single or tandem) and lc/ms (any type, single or tandem and excluding immunoassays (e.g., ia, eia, elisa, emit, fpia) and enzymatic methods (e.g., alcohol dehydrogenase)), (2) stable isotope or other universally recognized internal standards in all samples (e.g., to control for matrix effects, interferences and variations in signal strength), and (3) method or drug-specific calibration and matrix-matched quality control material (e.g., to control for instrument variations and mass spectral drift); qualitative or quantitative, all sources, includes specimen validity testing, per day; 22 or more drug class(es), including metabolite(s) if performed — 67% of everything it billed.

Compared with peers

Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in North Carolina

Rank by total paid#270 of 856

Median peer was paid$908K

This provider vs. median2.9×

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	64	$3K
2019	1,313	$87K
2020	4,920	$561K
2021	7,972	$1.09M
2022	5,562	$720K
2023	1,024	$135K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
G0483	Drug test(s), definitive, utilizing (1) drug identification methods able to identify individual drugs and distinguish between structural isomers (but not necessarily stereoisomers), including, but not limited to gc/ms (any type, single or tandem) and lc/ms (any type, single or tandem and excluding immunoassays (e.g., ia, eia, elisa, emit, fpia) and enzymatic methods (e.g., alcohol dehydrogenase)), (2) stable isotope or other universally recognized internal standards in all samples (e.g., to control for matrix effects, interferences and variations in signal strength), and (3) method or drug-specific calibration and matrix-matched quality control material (e.g., to control for instrument variations and mass spectral drift); qualitative or quantitative, all sources, includes specimen validity testing, per day; 22 or more drug class(es), including metabolite(s) if performed	67%	8,911	3,643	$1.75M
80307	Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay	30%	10,741	3,989	$770K
90837	Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient	2.7%	1,014	218	$71K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	51	45	$3K
H0032	Mental health service plan development by non-physician	<1%	52	46	$3K
80305		<1%	86	53	$348.25

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 officialSIMS, KIMBERLY (OWNER)

Same official

Other billing entities under SIMS, KIMBERLY

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Provider	Location	Paid
Lower Florence County Hospital	Lake City, SC	$418K

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.