Behavioral
Preferred Care Associates, LLC
Preferred Care Associates, LLC was paid $733K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 94% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPREFERRED CARE ASSOCIATES, LLC
WARREN, OH 44484
WARREN, OH 44484
33aNPI1154687390assigned 04/02/2012
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$733K
24GClaims9,851
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Ohio
Rank by total paid#51 of 482
Median peer was paid$39K
This provider vs. median19×
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 | 322 | $22K | |
| 2019 | 379 | $22K | |
| 2020 | 927 | $57K | |
| 2021 | 1,163 | $75K | |
| 2022 | 1,727 | $121K | |
| 2023 | 2,967 | $203K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,366 | $233K |
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 | 94% | 9,183 | 4,617 | $690K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 3.7% | 293 | 269 | $27K |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 1.0% | 157 | 115 | $8K |
| 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% | 178 | 168 | $7K |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | <1% | 18 | 12 | $1K |
| 90785 | <1% | 22 | 12 | $243.32 |
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 officialHUMPHRIES, JOSEPH (MEMBER)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Preferred Care Counseling LLC | Poland, OH | $305K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.