Behavioral
Creative Change Counseling
Creative Change Counseling was paid $9.66M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is H0036, community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutes — 80% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCREATIVE CHANGE COUNSELING
HICKORY, NC 28602
HICKORY, NC 28602
33aNPI1053794065assigned 07/08/2015
33bProvider typeCounseling Psychologist
28Total paid$9.66M
24GClaims51,172
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Counseling Psychologist providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#1 of 5
Median peer was paid$199K
This provider vs. median48×
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 | 2,190 | $477K | |
| 2019 | 3,285 | $645K | |
| 2020 | 7,797 | $1.18M | |
| 2021 | 9,091 | $1.89M | |
| 2022 | 9,462 | $1.68M | |
| 2023 | 10,111 | $1.82M | |
| 2024incomplete | 9,236 | $1.97M |
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 | 80% | 35,629 | 7,121 | $7.73M |
| H2014 | Skills training and development, per 15 minutes | 20% | 14,870 | 2,713 | $1.92M |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | <1% | 631 | 333 | $10K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 42 | 41 | $360.07 |
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 officialTHOMAS, BERTEE (PROGRAM OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE DIRECT)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Creative Change Counseling | Lumberton, NJ | $13.70M |
| Minsec Treatment Center | Philadelphia, PA | $774K |
| Creative Change Counseling | Lumberton, NJ | $227K |
| Creative Change Counseling, INC. | Lumberton, NJ | $182K |
| Creative Change Counseling, INC. | Lakewood, NJ | $10K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.