High Desert Healing

High Desert Healing was paid $1.95M by Medicaid between Oct 2019 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 97% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoHIGH DESERT HEALING
ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87107

33aNPI1265938203assigned 03/30/2018

33bProvider typeSocial Worker

28Total paid$1.95M

24GClaims16,394

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthOct 2019 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Social Worker providers in New Mexico

Rank by total paid#5 of 31

Median peer was paid$169K

This provider vs. median11×

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	159	$16K
2020	1,029	$115K
2021	3,141	$357K
2022	3,355	$380K
2023	4,545	$526K
2024incomplete	4,165	$554K

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	97%	15,825	6,436	$1.90M
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	1.9%	447	328	$37K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	106	103	$14K
99214	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity	<1%	16	13	$2K

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 officialGOMEZ, LAUREN (PSYCHOTHERAPIST)