Bethea, Ethel

Bethea, Ethel was paid $427K by Medicaid between Nov 2018 and Sep 2019, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 98% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBETHEA, ETHEL
NEW HAVEN, CT 06519

33aNPI1033402045assigned 05/24/2011

33bProvider typeAddiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor

28Total paid$427K

24GClaims4,829

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthNov 2018 – Sep 2019

Compared with peers

Next to other Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor providers in Connecticut

Rank by total paid#25 of 144

Median peer was paid$96K

This provider vs. median4.5×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

OIG exclusionListed on the federal exclusion list (11/20/2024).

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	535	$47K
2019	4,294	$380K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
90837	Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient	98%	4,744	492	$420K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	1.6%	85	69	$7K

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.