Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse was paid $388K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 92% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCOUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101

33aNPI1386789253assigned 02/20/2007

33bProvider typePublic Health or Welfare Agency

28Total paid$388K

24GClaims4,791

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Public Health or Welfare Agency providers in California

Rank by total paid#21 of 50

Median peer was paid$311K

This provider vs. median1.2×

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	734	$51K
2019	661	$44K
2020	230	$18K
2021	828	$66K
2022	977	$77K
2023	960	$90K
2024incomplete	401	$41K

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	92%	4,244	1,480	$358K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	7.6%	547	195	$29K

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 officialTODD, SERENA (THERAPIST)