Behavioral
OIG excluded
Gascon, Christine
Gascon, Christine was paid $467K 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 infoGASCON, CHRISTINE
CHOTEAU, MT 59422
CHOTEAU, MT 59422
33aNPI1508211103assigned 05/02/2016
33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor
28Total paid$467K
24GClaims5,217
24DCodes billed1
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Montana
Rank by total paid#20 of 249
Median peer was paid$73K
This provider vs. median6.4×
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.
OIG exclusionListed on the federal exclusion list (01/20/2025).
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 | 1,137 | $98K | |
| 2019 | 1,075 | $92K | |
| 2020 | 1,002 | $89K | |
| 2021 | 1,020 | $95K | |
| 2022 | 832 | $78K | |
| 2023 | 151 | $14K |
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% | 5,217 | 1,250 | $467K |
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.