Behavioral
Desert Sky Counseling Services LLC
Desert Sky Counseling Services LLC was paid $617K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and May 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 62% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDESERT SKY COUNSELING SERVICES LLC
LAS CRUCES, NM 88005
LAS CRUCES, NM 88005
33aNPI1073702551assigned 10/19/2007
33bProvider typeCounselor
28Total paid$617K
24GClaims6,890
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – May 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Counselor providers in New Mexico
Rank by total paid#16 of 51
Median peer was paid$261K
This provider vs. median2.4×
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 | 1,415 | $93K | |
| 2019 | 1,324 | $81K | |
| 2020 | 854 | $70K | |
| 2021 | 1,235 | $138K | |
| 2022 | 1,277 | $129K | |
| 2023 | 603 | $78K | |
| 2024incomplete | 182 | $29K |
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% | 3,619 | 2,599 | $385K |
| 99214 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity | 17% | 1,051 | 951 | $105K |
| 90863 | 12% | 1,759 | 1,395 | $75K | |
| 90792 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | 5.4% | 208 | 208 | $33K |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 2.4% | 196 | 144 | $15K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 29 | 28 | $3K |
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient | <1% | 15 | 14 | $752.96 |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | <1% | 13 | 12 | $390.00 |
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 officialLYNCH, STEPHANIE (OWNER)