Ess, Joel

Ess, Joel was paid $23K by Medicaid between Oct 2019 and May 2021, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 76% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoESS, JOEL
BOONE, NC 28607

33aNPI1225407810assigned 09/24/2015

33bProvider typeClinical Social Worker

28Total paid$23K

24GClaims395

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthOct 2019 – May 2021

Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Social Worker providers in North Carolina

Rank by total paid#176 of 291

Median peer was paid$39K

This provider vs. median0.6×

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
2019	112	$8K
2020	188	$12K
2021	95	$4K

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	76%	240	100	$18K
90832	Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient	24%	155	60	$6K

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.