Ambalu, Michelle

Ambalu, Michelle was paid $869K by Medicaid between Jul 2020 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 83% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoAMBALU, MICHELLE
GARDEN CITY, NY 11530

33aNPI1194987495assigned 06/27/2008

33bProvider typeClinical Social Worker

28Total paid$869K

24GClaims11,244

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJul 2020 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Social Worker providers in New York

Rank by total paid#73 of 882

Median peer was paid$53K

This provider vs. median16×

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
2020	433	$35K
2021	2,335	$182K
2022	2,952	$227K
2023	3,292	$253K
2024incomplete	2,232	$172K

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	83%	9,603	3,221	$721K
90837	Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient	15%	1,486	649	$130K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	2.0%	155	151	$17K

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.