A Brief Counseling Center

A Brief Counseling Center was paid $688K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 92% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoA BRIEF COUNSELING CENTER
SPOKANE, WA 99218

33aNPI1417327883assigned 09/29/2015

33bProvider typeCounselor

28Total paid$688K

24GClaims8,935

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Counselor providers in Washington

Rank by total paid#11 of 74

Median peer was paid$57K

This provider vs. median12×

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	533	$20K
2019	844	$52K
2020	1,759	$116K
2021	2,328	$176K
2022	1,502	$144K
2023	1,245	$113K
2024incomplete	724	$67K

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%	7,941	3,360	$629K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	6.2%	495	483	$43K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	2.2%	423	236	$15K
90785		<1%	76	37	$570.24

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 officialSMITH, RAY (LICENSED MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR)