Brian Carlson MFT

Brian Carlson MFT was paid $1.07M by Medicaid between Nov 2019 and Sep 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBRIAN CARLSON MFT
APPLE VALLEY, CA 92307

33aNPI1407415433assigned 06/12/2019

33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor

28Total paid$1.07M

24GClaims8,879

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthNov 2019 – Sep 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in California

Rank by total paid#40 of 439

Median peer was paid$67K

This provider vs. median16×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Single-Code Concentration100% of spending on code 90837 with only 3 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.

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
2019	22	$2K
2020	1,842	$207K
2021	1,986	$246K
2022	1,786	$223K
2023	1,811	$220K
2024incomplete	1,432	$167K

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	100%	8,767	3,540	$1.06M
90847	Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes	<1%	15	14	$1K
90785		<1%	97	46	$1K

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 officialLOPEZ, CHELI (CREDENTIALING)