Agency
First Choice Community Counseling
First Choice Community Counseling was paid $3.26M by Medicaid between Feb 2022 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 49% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFIRST CHOICE COMMUNITY COUNSELING
CAMP SPRINGS, MD 20746
CAMP SPRINGS, MD 20746
33aNPI1508464975assigned 10/16/2020
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$3.26M
24GClaims23,395
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2022 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Maryland
Rank by total paid#184 of 794
Median peer was paid$786K
This provider vs. median4.1×
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 | 4,078 | $546K | |
| 2023 | 9,062 | $1.21M | |
| 2024incomplete | 10,255 | $1.50M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 49% | 11,768 | 1,606 | $1.61M |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | 49% | 11,277 | 1,558 | $1.60M |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 1.1% | 184 | 175 | $36K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 30 | 24 | $6K |
| 90853 | Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group) | <1% | 104 | 56 | $6K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 14 | 14 | $3K |
| 90836 | <1% | 18 | 15 | $2K |
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 officialMASON, TANIKKA (CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| First Choice Community Counseling | Camp Springs, MD | $24K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.