Behavioral
Darnell, Melissa
Darnell, Melissa was paid $1.12M by Medicaid between May 2018 and Nov 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 75% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDARNELL, MELISSA
VICTORVILLE, CA 92395
VICTORVILLE, CA 92395
33aNPI1447396874assigned 01/30/2007
33bProvider typeMarriage & Family Therapist
28Total paid$1.12M
24GClaims11,259
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthMay 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Marriage & Family Therapist providers in California
Rank by total paid#71 of 1,717
Median peer was paid$66K
This provider vs. median17×
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 | 408 | $41K | |
| 2019 | 1,161 | $118K | |
| 2020 | 1,565 | $154K | |
| 2021 | 1,700 | $168K | |
| 2022 | 1,950 | $193K | |
| 2023 | 2,253 | $228K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,222 | $221K |
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 | 75% | 8,025 | 3,633 | $844K |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | 24% | 3,191 | 1,731 | $275K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 43 | 43 | $5K |
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.