Bukala, Kristine

Bukala, Kristine was paid $115K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and May 2022, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 99% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBUKALA, KRISTINE
CHANNAHON, IL 60410

33aNPI1336679455assigned 06/13/2017

33bProvider typeClinical Social Worker

28Total paid$115K

24GClaims1,398

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – May 2022

Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Social Worker providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#154 of 703

Median peer was paid$25K

This provider vs. median4.6×

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	74	$95.96
2019	545	$41K
2020	174	$12K
2021	435	$44K
2022	170	$18K

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%	1,309	514	$113K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	1.4%	15	15	$2K
90832	Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient	<1%	74	27	$95.96

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.