Clinic
Children's Friend, INC.
Children's Friend, INC. was paid $940K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and May 2021, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 77% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHILDREN'S FRIEND, INC.
WORCESTER, MA 01609
WORCESTER, MA 01609
33aNPI1346297504assigned 05/30/2006
28Total paid$940K
24GClaims13,865
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – May 2021
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Clinic/Center (Including Community Mental Health Center) providers in Massachusetts
Rank by total paid#41 of 72
Median peer was paid$1.85M
This provider vs. median0.5×
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 | 2,392 | $156K | |
| 2019 | 2,891 | $185K | |
| 2020 | 6,684 | $464K | |
| 2021 | 1,898 | $135K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 77% | 9,549 | 4,188 | $723K |
| 90887 | 10% | 2,059 | 1,236 | $97K | |
| 90882 | 3.9% | 905 | 472 | $37K | |
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient | 2.9% | 643 | 416 | $27K |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | 2.8% | 332 | 226 | $26K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 1.6% | 121 | 96 | $16K |
| 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 | 1.5% | 213 | 180 | $14K |
| 90853 | Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group) | <1% | 43 | 23 | $1K |
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 officialLUDINGTON, KAREN (PRESIDENT & CEO)