Fulton, Melissa

Fulton, Melissa was paid $639K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2023, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 89% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFULTON, MELISSA
KINGSTREE, SC 29556

33aNPI1437493582assigned 11/15/2012

33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor

28Total paid$639K

24GClaims6,422

24DCodes billed6

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in South Carolina

Rank by total paid#22 of 136

Median peer was paid$80K

This provider vs. median8.0×

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	1,074	$107K
2019	1,796	$186K
2020	1,399	$140K
2021	1,166	$116K
2022	834	$75K
2023	153	$16K

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	89%	5,463	1,465	$567K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	9.4%	811	235	$60K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	1.2%	62	61	$8K
90847	Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes	<1%	25	25	$2K
H0031	Mental health assessment, by non-physician	<1%	14	14	$1K
90853	Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group)	<1%	47	14	$782.55

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.