Behavioral
Desert Star Behavioral Health, LLC
Desert Star Behavioral Health, LLC was paid $360K by Medicaid between Aug 2023 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is H2014, Skills training and development, per 15 minutes — 48% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDESERT STAR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, LLC
EL PASO, TX 79928
EL PASO, TX 79928
33aNPI1972146496assigned 10/28/2019
33bProvider typeCounselor
28Total paid$360K
24GClaims5,343
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthAug 2023 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Counselor providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#35 of 189
Median peer was paid$64K
This provider vs. median5.6×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1,599 | $135K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,744 | $225K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2014 | Skills training and development, per 15 minutes | 48% | 1,852 | 625 | $173K |
| H2017 | Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes | 40% | 2,217 | 623 | $146K |
| 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 | 5.6% | 538 | 474 | $20K |
| H0034 | Medication training and support, per 15 minutes | 3.3% | 636 | 318 | $12K |
| 90792 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | 1.8% | 71 | 51 | $7K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 17 | 14 | $2K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 12 | 12 | $909.48 |
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 officialGONZALEZ, JOYCE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)