Southeastern Behavioral Associates, LLC

Southeastern Behavioral Associates, LLC was paid $699K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 84% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSOUTHEASTERN BEHAVIORAL ASSOCIATES, LLC
PORTALES, NM 88130

33aNPI1447640164assigned 02/02/2015

33bProvider typeProfessional Counselor

28Total paid$699K

24GClaims8,050

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Professional Counselor providers in New Mexico

Rank by total paid#22 of 134

Median peer was paid$107K

This provider vs. median6.5×

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	1,056	$73K
2019	856	$75K
2020	1,083	$98K
2021	1,852	$125K
2022	1,894	$141K
2023	647	$85K
2024incomplete	662	$102K

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	84%	4,979	1,822	$588K
90847	Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes	11%	878	405	$78K
90785		3.9%	2,157	797	$28K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	36	36	$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.

From NPPES

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialSTEPHENSON, SHEILA (CO-OWNER)