Alternative Counseling Center

Alternative Counseling Center was paid $146K by Medicaid between Jul 2018 and Sep 2019, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 66% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoALTERNATIVE COUNSELING CENTER
KNOXVILLE, TN 37918

33aNPI1376715482assigned 03/28/2008

33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency

28Total paid$146K

24GClaims2,970

24DCodes billed6

24AFirst – last monthJul 2018 – Sep 2019

Compared with peers

Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Tennessee

Rank by total paid#21 of 47

Median peer was paid$129K

This provider vs. median1.1×

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	1,172	$55K
2019	1,798	$92K

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	66%	1,620	885	$97K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	17%	741	414	$25K
90847	Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes	12%	425	268	$18K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	3.1%	106	105	$5K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	1.3%	57	43	$2K
90832	Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient	<1%	21	17	$364.48

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 officialCHAND, SAROJ (CEO)