Agency
Samaritan Counseling Center
Samaritan Counseling Center was paid $2.30M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 90% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER
DENVER, CO 80111
DENVER, CO 80111
33aNPI1417962234assigned 07/30/2006
33bProvider typeVoluntary or Charitable Agency
28Total paid$2.30M
24GClaims19,882
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Voluntary or Charitable Agency providers in Colorado
Rank by total paid#5 of 10
Median peer was paid$232K
This provider vs. median9.9×
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 | 80 | $2K | |
| 2019 | 985 | $91K | |
| 2020 | 3,768 | $334K | |
| 2021 | 2,542 | $224K | |
| 2022 | 3,156 | $382K | |
| 2023 | 5,489 | $777K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,862 | $489K |
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 | 90% | 16,725 | 6,075 | $2.08M |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 6.5% | 1,827 | 780 | $149K |
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient | 1.6% | 480 | 284 | $36K |
| T1017 | Case management, billed per 15 minutesTargeted case management, each 15 minutes | <1% | 465 | 233 | $22K |
| H0032 | Mental health service plan development by non-physician | <1% | 118 | 102 | $7K |
| H0002 | Behavioral health screening to determine eligibility for admission to treatment program | <1% | 220 | 207 | $6K |
| H0004 | Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes | <1% | 30 | 12 | $3K |
| 90846 | Family psychotherapy without the patient present, 50 minutes | <1% | 17 | 12 | $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 officialBRETZ, PAUL (CEO)