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Merakey Childrens Services

Merakey Childrens Services was paid $2.13M by Medicaid between Jan 2020 and Dec 2024, across 12 billing codes. Its largest line is 90832, psychotherapy session, about 30 minutes — 49% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMERAKEY CHILDRENS SERVICES
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19125
33aNPI1285857631assigned 04/11/2007
28Total paid$2.13M
24GClaims52,944
24DCodes billed12
24AFirst – last monthJan 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Pennsylvania

Rank by total paid#196 of 517
Median peer was paid$1.23M
This provider vs. median1.7×

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.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official TILSON, NORMAN controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$50K$100K$150K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
20207,917$63K
202122,542$325.00
202210,827$926K
20237,628$751K
2024incomplete4,030$389K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
90832 Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient 49% 20,925 9,134 $1.05M
90847 Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes 31% 13,028 6,895 $670K
99211 Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity 8.2% 6,006 5,823 $175K
H0034 Medication training and support, per 15 minutes 7.1% 1,765 1,582 $152K
H2021 Community-based wrap-around services, per 15 minutes 1.2% 3,301 424 $26K
96127 1.1% 234 230 $23K
H0032 Mental health service plan development by non-physician <1% 4,937 997 $11K
90792 Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services <1% 127 127 $9K
H2019 Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes <1% 2,139 488 $7K
H0046 Mental health services, not otherwise specified <1% 22 21 $3K
90846 Family psychotherapy without the patient present, 50 minutes <1% 415 328 $1K
90791 Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation 0% 45 45 $0.00

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 officialTILSON, NORMAN (CORP SR. DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS OPS)
Same official

Other billing entities under TILSON, NORMAN

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ProviderLocationPaid
Merakey AllosRichmond, VA$22.48M
Merakey PennsylvaniaHuntingdon, PA$17.43M
Merakey PennsylvaniaHarrisburg, PA$13.08M
Merakey Parkside RecoveryPhiladelphia, PA$11.85M
Merakey Parkside RecoveryPhiladelphia, PA$6.05M
Merakey PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$5.10M
Merakey Montgomery CountyColmar, PA$5.03M
Merakey Montgomery CountyLansdale, PA$5.02M
Merakey Delaware CountySharon Hill, PA$4.99M
Merakey PennsylvaniaStroudsburg, PA$4.80M
Merakey PennsylvaniaStroudsburg, PA$4.06M
Merakey PennsylvaniaBethlehem, PA$4.01M
Merakey Montgomery CountyLansdale, PA$3.86M
Merakey Bucks CountyWarminster, PA$3.63M
Merakey Bucks CountyWarminster, PA$2.89M
NHS Stevens CenterCarlisle, PA$2.86M
Merakey Delaware CountySharon Hill, PA$2.77M
Merakey PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$2.63M
Merakey Chester CountyKennett Square, PA$1.96M
Merakey PennsylvaniaHarrisburg, PA$1.77M

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.