Meridian Counseling

Meridian Counseling was paid $2.49M by Medicaid between Jun 2021 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 99% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMERIDIAN COUNSELING
LOS ANGELES, CA 90064

33aNPI1396202206assigned 02/27/2019

33bProvider typePsychologist

28Total paid$2.49M

24GClaims24,622

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJun 2021 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Psychologist providers in California

Rank by total paid#18 of 211

Median peer was paid$79K

This provider vs. median32×

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	1,470	$116K
2022	4,547	$364K
2023	7,485	$724K
2024incomplete	11,120	$1.28M

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	99%	23,314	7,856	$2.47M
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	129	118	$14K
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%	31	31	$2K
96146		<1%	1,148	807	$2K

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 officialKUSHNIR, SANDRA (CEO)