Houchen, Benjamin

Houchen, Benjamin was paid $688K by Medicaid between Apr 2019 and Nov 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 99% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoHOUCHEN, BENJAMIN
SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT 05403

33aNPI1104237288assigned 05/12/2014

33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor

28Total paid$688K

24GClaims12,837

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthApr 2019 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Vermont

Rank by total paid#16 of 250

Median peer was paid$65K

This provider vs. median11×

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
2019	193	$14K
2020	184	$13K
2021	6,423	$117K
2022	1,905	$174K
2023	2,209	$192K
2024incomplete	1,923	$178K

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	99%	12,725	2,784	$680K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	78	65	$6K
90832	Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient	<1%	34	14	$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.