First Step Wellness LLC

First Step Wellness LLC was paid $635K by Medicaid between Feb 2020 and Dec 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 99% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFIRST STEP WELLNESS LLC
DANBURY, CT 06810

33aNPI1306483649assigned 12/05/2019

33bProvider typeClinical Social Worker

28Total paid$635K

24GClaims7,100

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthFeb 2020 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Social Worker providers in Connecticut

Rank by total paid#41 of 647

Median peer was paid$67K

This provider vs. median9.4×

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
2020	1,046	$88K
2021	1,716	$155K
2022	1,612	$153K
2023	1,357	$126K
2024incomplete	1,369	$113K

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%	7,018	2,404	$629K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	82	58	$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 officialNARVAEZ, WALESKA (MEMBER)