Cooks, Paula

Cooks, Paula was paid $747K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 89% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCOOKS, PAULA
QUITMAN, MS 39355

33aNPI1518231653assigned 03/07/2012

33bProvider typeProfessional Counselor

28Total paid$747K

24GClaims7,963

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Professional Counselor providers in Mississippi

Rank by total paid#3 of 66

Median peer was paid$35K

This provider vs. median21×

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	1,599	$80K
2019	1,206	$88K
2020	846	$90K
2021	1,065	$118K
2022	1,082	$118K
2023	1,146	$133K
2024incomplete	1,019	$120K

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	89%	6,446	2,504	$665K
90847	Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes	8.6%	1,096	349	$64K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	2.0%	371	150	$15K
90846	Family psychotherapy without the patient present, 50 minutes	<1%	50	29	$3K

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.