Behavioral
Preferred Choice Healthcare
Preferred Choice Healthcare was paid $2.85M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 90832, psychotherapy session, about 30 minutes — 37% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPREFERRED CHOICE HEALTHCARE
SHELBY, NC 28150
SHELBY, NC 28150
33aNPI1073827861assigned 08/04/2010
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$2.85M
24GClaims43,141
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#38 of 321
Median peer was paid$192K
This provider vs. median15×
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 | 7,863 | $389K | |
| 2019 | 7,096 | $355K | |
| 2020 | 6,769 | $335K | |
| 2021 | 5,231 | $292K | |
| 2022 | 5,812 | $398K | |
| 2023 | 5,281 | $574K | |
| 2024incomplete | 5,089 | $514K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient | 37% | 25,107 | 14,890 | $1.06M |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 26% | 12,594 | 7,954 | $734K |
| H2022 | Community-based wrap-around services, per diem | 23% | 299 | 273 | $653K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 8.5% | 2,509 | 2,106 | $242K |
| 90837 | Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient | 4.6% | 1,479 | 887 | $131K |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | <1% | 421 | 314 | $28K |
| 98966 | <1% | 592 | 301 | $4K | |
| 98967 | <1% | 140 | 107 | $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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialPOWELL, JAMES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.