Behavioral
Albuquerque Guidance Center
Albuquerque Guidance Center was paid $2.89M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 100% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoALBUQUERQUE GUIDANCE CENTER
ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87105
ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87105
33aNPI1427467547assigned 08/04/2014
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$2.89M
24GClaims24,165
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in New Mexico
Rank by total paid#7 of 159
Median peer was paid$100K
This provider vs. median29×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2,036 | $155K | |
| 2019 | 2,406 | $208K | |
| 2020 | 3,326 | $406K | |
| 2021 | 4,070 | $478K | |
| 2022 | 3,883 | $459K | |
| 2023 | 4,510 | $598K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,934 | $589K |
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% | 24,056 | 6,505 | $2.88M |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | <1% | 95 | 36 | $10K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 14 | 14 | $2K |
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, CHARMAINE (CEO/CLINICAL DIRECTOR)