Behavioral
Vatogna Steward PLLC
Vatogna Steward PLLC was paid $669K by Medicaid between Apr 2019 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 94% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoVATOGNA STEWARD PLLC
CHARLOTTE, NC 28273
CHARLOTTE, NC 28273
33aNPI1184121592assigned 04/11/2018
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$669K
24GClaims9,913
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthApr 2019 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#101 of 321
Median peer was paid$192K
This provider vs. median3.5×
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 | 645 | $50K | |
| 2020 | 1,745 | $119K | |
| 2021 | 1,764 | $105K | |
| 2022 | 1,477 | $118K | |
| 2023 | 1,842 | $130K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,440 | $147K |
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% | 9,041 | 2,228 | $632K |
| 98968 | 4.2% | 789 | 408 | $28K | |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 1.4% | 83 | 77 | $9K |
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 officialSTEWARD, VATOGNA (OWNER)