Behavioral
A Better Way Counseling Service
A Better Way Counseling Service was paid $488K by Medicaid between Aug 2022 and Dec 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 99% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoA BETTER WAY COUNSELING SERVICE
VANCOUVER, WA 98663
VANCOUVER, WA 98663
33aNPI1265877310assigned 05/02/2013
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$488K
24GClaims4,956
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthAug 2022 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Washington
Rank by total paid#43 of 368
Median peer was paid$48K
This provider vs. median10×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 276 | $23K | |
| 2023 | 1,898 | $177K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,782 | $289K |
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% | 4,906 | 1,862 | $482K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 1.2% | 50 | 50 | $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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialTOMASOVIC, DEBBIE (CO-OWNER)