Montanez Associates

Montanez Associates was paid $1.59M by Medicaid between Jul 2019 and Dec 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 97% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMONTANEZ ASSOCIATES
LAS CRUCES, NM 88005

33aNPI1487091484assigned 05/30/2013

33bProvider typeClinical Psychologist

28Total paid$1.59M

24GClaims12,951

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJul 2019 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Psychologist providers in New Mexico

Rank by total paid#5 of 39

Median peer was paid$84K

This provider vs. median19×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Single-Code Concentration97% of spending on code 90837 with only 2 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.

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
2019	595	$63K
2020	2,975	$352K
2021	4,176	$501K
2022	2,655	$321K
2023	1,576	$203K
2024incomplete	974	$149K

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	97%	12,545	4,944	$1.54M
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	3.1%	406	386	$50K

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 officialMONTANEZ, DURANDA (LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST)