Life Happens

Life Happens was paid $345K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoLIFE HAPPENS
COLUMBIA, CT 06237

33aNPI1245561836assigned 01/20/2010

33bProvider typeAddiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor

28Total paid$345K

24GClaims5,789

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor providers in Connecticut

Rank by total paid#30 of 144

Median peer was paid$96K

This provider vs. median3.6×

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
2018	520	$30K
2019	370	$22K
2020	755	$45K
2021	921	$53K
2022	1,166	$71K
2023	1,148	$70K
2024incomplete	909	$55K

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	100%	5,757	2,106	$344K
90853	Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group)	<1%	32	12	$716.70

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 officialLAVINE, DOUGLAS (OWNER)