Lutheran Family Service

Lutheran Family Service was paid $73K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 63% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICE
FORT DODGE, IA 50501

33aNPI1316059496assigned 08/31/2006

33bProvider typeVoluntary or Charitable Agency

28Total paid$73K

24GClaims954

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Voluntary or Charitable Agency providers in Iowa

Rank by total paid#6 of 8

Median peer was paid$4.56M

This provider vs. median0.0×

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	332	$20K
2019	143	$8K
2021	113	$8K
2022	64	$5K
2023	116	$10K
2024incomplete	186	$22K

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	63%	496	263	$46K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	37%	458	266	$27K

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 officialMATHIS-PRICE, MELISSA (CREDENTIALING SPECIALIST)