Watson, Daniel

Watson, Daniel was paid $479K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 99% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoWATSON, DANIEL
PALM DESERT, CA 92260

33aNPI1134234289assigned 08/20/2006

33bProvider typePsychologist

28Total paid$479K

24GClaims4,850

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Psychologist providers in California

Rank by total paid#39 of 211

Median peer was paid$79K

This provider vs. median6.1×

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	1,080	$100K
2019	932	$89K
2020	789	$79K
2021	764	$83K
2022	410	$44K
2023	479	$46K
2024incomplete	396	$38K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	99%	4,798	2,190	$473K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	1.2%	52	42	$6K

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.