Serenity Counseling and Psychological Services

Serenity Counseling and Psychological Services was paid $348K by Medicaid between Oct 2021 and Oct 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 90% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSERENITY COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES
SANTA MARIA, CA 93455

33aNPI1053988493assigned 06/04/2021

33bProvider typeMarriage & Family Therapist

28Total paid$348K

24GClaims2,799

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthOct 2021 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Marriage & Family Therapist providers in California

Rank by total paid#281 of 1,717

Median peer was paid$66K

This provider vs. median5.3×

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
2021	55	$4K
2022	634	$75K
2023	675	$84K
2024incomplete	1,435	$185K

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	90%	2,538	769	$315K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	9.3%	248	145	$32K
90832	Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient	<1%	13	13	$932.36

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 officialBELTRAN-MEDINA, LAURA (PSYCHOLOGIST)