Sheela Behavioral Consulting LLC

Sheela Behavioral Consulting LLC was paid $438K by Medicaid between Oct 2021 and Jul 2023, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 97153, applied behavior analysis (autism therapy), per 15 minutes — 72% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSHEELA BEHAVIORAL CONSULTING LLC
FITCHBURG, MA 01420

33aNPI1376936401assigned 03/13/2015

33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency

28Total paid$438K

24GClaims1,879

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthOct 2021 – Jul 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Massachusetts

Rank by total paid#109 of 169

Median peer was paid$1.37M

This provider vs. median0.3×

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
2021	58	$8K
2022	422	$96K
2023	1,399	$334K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
97153	Applied behavior analysis (autism therapy), per 15 minutesAdaptive behavior treatment by protocol, administered by technician, each 15 minutes	72%	1,300	91	$314K
97155	Adaptive behavior treatment with protocol modification, administered by physician, each 15 minutes	16%	311	77	$70K
H2019	Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes	7.8%	158	12	$34K
H0031	Mental health assessment, by non-physician	3.4%	88	37	$15K
97156		1.0%	22	12	$5K

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 officialTALLAMRAJU, SHEELA (CHIEF EXECUTIVE MOTHER)