Challenges Psychological Services, P.A.

Challenges Psychological Services, P.A. was paid $44K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90832, psychotherapy session, about 30 minutes — 90% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCHALLENGES PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES, P.A.
HOWELL, NJ 07731

33aNPI1114968427assigned 06/09/2006

33bProvider typeNursing Facility/Intermediate Care Facility

28Total paid$44K

24GClaims1,621

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jul 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Nursing Facility/Intermediate Care Facility providers in New Jersey

Rank by total paid#3 of 20

Median peer was paid$243.13

This provider vs. median180×

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	491	$18K
2019	398	$12K
2020	122	$3K
2021	263	$5K
2022	12	$251.66
2023	191	$3K
2024incomplete	144	$2K

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	90%	1,553	955	$40K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	7.1%	53	28	$3K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	2.7%	15	15	$1K

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 officialSWEETWOOD, LORI (PRESIDENT)