Behavioral
OIG excluded
Helem, Pamela
Helem, Pamela was paid $684K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2023, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 99% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoHELEM, PAMELA
OMAHA, NE 68131
OMAHA, NE 68131
33aNPI1205963295assigned 02/27/2007
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$684K
24GClaims7,736
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jul 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Nebraska
Rank by total paid#39 of 384
Median peer was paid$81K
This provider vs. median8.4×
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.
OIG exclusionListed on the federal exclusion list (06/19/2025).
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 | 1,915 | $163K | |
| 2019 | 1,980 | $171K | |
| 2020 | 1,808 | $167K | |
| 2021 | 1,473 | $161K | |
| 2022 | 401 | $16K | |
| 2023 | 159 | $7K |
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 | 99% | 7,696 | 2,096 | $680K |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | <1% | 40 | 26 | $4K |
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.