Paolella, Kara

Paolella, Kara was paid $504K by Medicaid between Jan 2020 and Nov 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is H0036, community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutes — 97% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPAOLELLA, KARA
PROVIDENCE, RI 02905

33aNPI1033428826assigned 09/28/2010

33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor

28Total paid$504K

24GClaims4,452

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2020 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Rhode Island

Rank by total paid#19 of 257

Median peer was paid$31K

This provider vs. median16×

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
2020	1,282	$142K
2021	1,858	$211K
2022	1,125	$138K
2023	16	$565.21
2024incomplete	171	$13K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
H0036	Community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutesCommunity psychiatric supportive treatment, face-to-face, per 15 minutes	97%	4,265	673	$491K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	2.1%	164	110	$11K
90837	Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient	<1%	23	12	$2K

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.