Behavioral
Discovery Marriage & Family Counseling Services, INC.
Discovery Marriage & Family Counseling Services, INC. was paid $139K by Medicaid between Jan 2022 and Nov 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 86% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDISCOVERY MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES, INC.
LANCASTER, CA 93534
LANCASTER, CA 93534
33aNPI1477169399assigned 09/16/2020
33bProvider typeClinical Social Worker
28Total paid$139K
24GClaims2,474
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2022 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Social Worker providers in California
Rank by total paid#192 of 591
Median peer was paid$50K
This provider vs. median2.8×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 528 | $1K | |
| 2023 | 763 | $7K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,183 | $131K |
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 | 86% | 2,261 | 1,183 | $120K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 6.3% | 55 | 52 | $9K |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | 4.0% | 61 | 25 | $6K |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 3.8% | 97 | 56 | $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 officialALFARO, JOSE (PRESIDENT/CEO)