Behavioral
Gardner, Cheryl
Gardner, Cheryl was paid $639K by Medicaid between Jul 2018 and May 2021, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 72% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoGARDNER, CHERYL
DECATUR, GA 30030
DECATUR, GA 30030
33aNPI1356602734assigned 06/01/2012
33bProvider typeProfessional Counselor
28Total paid$639K
24GClaims5,819
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJul 2018 – May 2021
Compared with peers
Next to other Professional Counselor providers in Georgia
Rank by total paid#17 of 452
Median peer was paid$38K
This provider vs. median17×
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 | 1,073 | $139K | |
| 2019 | 2,623 | $298K | |
| 2020 | 1,642 | $160K | |
| 2021 | 481 | $42K |
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 | 72% | 4,516 | 1,395 | $460K |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | 19% | 883 | 366 | $121K |
| H0004 | Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes | 5.7% | 266 | 155 | $36K |
| H0031 | Mental health assessment, by non-physician | 1.4% | 45 | 44 | $9K |
| H0032 | Mental health service plan development by non-physician | <1% | 45 | 45 | $6K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 28 | 27 | $3K |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | <1% | 36 | 24 | $3K |
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.