Choose Life Counseling Services

Choose Life Counseling Services was paid $812K by Medicaid between Jan 2019 and Dec 2021, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 99% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCHOOSE LIFE COUNSELING SERVICES
DOBSON, NC 27017

33aNPI1154819472assigned 04/23/2018

33bProvider typeAddiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor

28Total paid$812K

24GClaims9,340

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2019 – Dec 2021

Compared with peers

Next to other Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor providers in North Carolina

Rank by total paid#60 of 222

Median peer was paid$168K

This provider vs. median4.8×

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	2,323	$211K
2020	3,746	$323K
2021	3,271	$277K

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%	9,227	3,223	$801K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	1.3%	113	113	$11K

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 officialPULLIAM, JOHN (DIRECTOR)