Chernes, Richard

Chernes, Richard was paid $117K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2023, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCHERNES, RICHARD
HAMDEN, CT 06518

33aNPI1447214473assigned 04/14/2006

33bProvider typeAddiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor

28Total paid$117K

24GClaims1,492

24DCodes billed1

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor providers in Connecticut

Rank by total paid#64 of 144

Median peer was paid$96K

This provider vs. median1.2×

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	624	$50K
2019	322	$28K
2020	244	$18K
2021	133	$9K
2022	60	$4K
2023	109	$8K

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%	1,492	494	$117K

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.