Agency
Empowering Choices Counseling & Consultation
Empowering Choices Counseling & Consultation was paid $2.34M by Medicaid between May 2020 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 97% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoEMPOWERING CHOICES COUNSELING & CONSULTATION
SALEM, OR 97301
SALEM, OR 97301
33aNPI1194112243assigned 04/15/2015
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$2.34M
24GClaims13,883
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthMay 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Oregon
Rank by total paid#21 of 104
Median peer was paid$222K
This provider vs. median11×
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Single-Code Concentration97% of spending on code 90837 with only 3 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 233 | $23K | |
| 2021 | 901 | $100K | |
| 2022 | 3,771 | $543K | |
| 2023 | 4,428 | $798K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,550 | $871K |
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 | 97% | 13,010 | 5,501 | $2.26M |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 3.4% | 860 | 370 | $79K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 13 | 13 | $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 officialGRIGSBY, JANDA (COUNSELOR, PARTNER)