Behavioral
OIG excluded
Cross, Kate Kathleen
Cross, Kate Kathleen was paid $616K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2022, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 61% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCROSS, KATE KATHLEEN
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA 51503
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA 51503
33aNPI1417230582assigned 09/24/2011
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$616K
24GClaims10,918
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Iowa
Rank by total paid#25 of 277
Median peer was paid$48K
This provider vs. median13×
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.
OIG exclusionListed on the federal exclusion list (01/20/2025).
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 | 3,176 | $209K | |
| 2019 | 2,832 | $168K | |
| 2020 | 2,821 | $139K | |
| 2021 | 2,064 | $99K | |
| 2022 | 25 | $1K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 61% | 5,791 | 2,210 | $377K |
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient | 30% | 4,284 | 1,609 | $184K |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | 6.7% | 624 | 353 | $41K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 1.5% | 104 | 97 | $10K |
| 90853 | Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group) | <1% | 115 | 48 | $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.