Encouraging Words INC

Encouraging Words INC was paid $353K by Medicaid between Feb 2018 and Oct 2023, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 97% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoENCOURAGING WORDS INC
LEWISBURG, WV 24901

33aNPI1205048360assigned 05/03/2007

33bProvider typeCounselor

28Total paid$353K

24GClaims6,221

24DCodes billed8

24AFirst – last monthFeb 2018 – Oct 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Counselor providers in West Virginia

Rank by total paid#8 of 21

Median peer was paid$122K

This provider vs. median2.9×

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
2018	1,308	$71K
2019	577	$37K
2020	1,559	$103K
2021	1,417	$86K
2022	1,001	$46K
2023	359	$11K

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	97%	5,830	1,945	$343K
96116		<1%	60	54	$3K
90847	Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes	<1%	38	28	$3K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	28	27	$3K
90876		<1%	35	24	$1K
97129		0%	93	39	$0.00
90901		0%	46	24	$0.00
97130		0%	91	39	$0.00

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 officialLUSHER, TERRY (DIRECTOR)