Behavioral
Valera Counseling Services
Valera Counseling Services was paid $3.37M by Medicaid between Jun 2020 and Nov 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 78% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoVALERA COUNSELING SERVICES
WINSTON SALEM, NC 27103
WINSTON SALEM, NC 27103
33aNPI1407335953assigned 08/07/2018
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$3.37M
24GClaims42,894
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJun 2020 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#34 of 321
Median peer was paid$192K
This provider vs. median18×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 852 | $82K | |
| 2021 | 9,378 | $693K | |
| 2022 | 9,920 | $617K | |
| 2023 | 9,386 | $681K | |
| 2024incomplete | 13,358 | $1.29M |
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 | 78% | 34,760 | 8,487 | $2.64M |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | 15% | 6,674 | 4,565 | $499K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 4.1% | 1,191 | 949 | $140K |
| 97155 | Adaptive behavior treatment with protocol modification, administered by physician, each 15 minutes | 1.4% | 118 | 12 | $46K |
| 97153 | Applied behavior analysis (autism therapy), per 15 minutesAdaptive behavior treatment by protocol, administered by technician, each 15 minutes | 1.1% | 119 | 12 | $38K |
| 97156 | <1% | 32 | 12 | $9K |
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 officialVALERA, MERIDA (CEO)