Behavioral
Bernous, Behzad
Bernous, Behzad was paid $768K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2023, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 62% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBERNOUS, BEHZAD
IRVINE, CA 92614
IRVINE, CA 92614
33aNPI1063757011assigned 12/03/2012
33bProvider typeClinical Psychologist
28Total paid$768K
24GClaims8,367
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Psychologist providers in California
Rank by total paid#25 of 350
Median peer was paid$42K
This provider vs. median18×
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 | 674 | $50K | |
| 2019 | 983 | $62K | |
| 2020 | 754 | $46K | |
| 2021 | 1,164 | $68K | |
| 2022 | 2,664 | $249K | |
| 2023 | 2,128 | $293K |
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 | 62% | 7,048 | 2,842 | $477K |
| 96137 | 17% | 184 | 181 | $130K | |
| 96131 | 12% | 184 | 181 | $89K | |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 5.7% | 587 | 513 | $44K |
| 96130 | 2.5% | 182 | 180 | $19K | |
| 96136 | 1.0% | 182 | 180 | $8K |
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.