Behavioral
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
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.