Ames, Ralph

Ames, Ralph was paid $137K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 99% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoAMES, RALPH
SANTA ROSA, CA 95404

33aNPI1205994464assigned 12/04/2006

33bProvider typeClinical Psychologist

28Total paid$137K

24GClaims2,681

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jul 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Psychologist providers in California

Rank by total paid#110 of 350

Median peer was paid$42K

This provider vs. median3.3×

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	367	$5K
2020	181	$0.00
2021	579	$0.00
2022	704	$62K
2023	552	$46K
2024incomplete	298	$24K

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	99%	2,359	875	$136K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	<1%	322	161	$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.