Alpine Lakes Counseling Center, LLC

Alpine Lakes Counseling Center, LLC was paid $1.05M by Medicaid between Jan 2021 and Nov 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 99% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoALPINE LAKES COUNSELING CENTER, LLC
ARVADA, CO 80002

33aNPI1225579246assigned 03/09/2017

33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor

28Total paid$1.05M

24GClaims11,055

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2021 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Colorado

Rank by total paid#30 of 335

Median peer was paid$61K

This provider vs. median17×

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.

Single-Code Concentration99% of spending on code 90837 with only 2 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.

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
2021	1,446	$114K
2022	2,286	$202K
2023	4,640	$465K
2024incomplete	2,683	$273K

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%	10,993	3,644	$1.05M
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	62	44	$7K

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 officialHOPPERSTAD, CHELSIE (PRESIDENT)