Behavioral
April Shipowick
April Shipowick was paid $693K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 73% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoAPRIL SHIPOWICK
WENATCHEE, WA 98801
WENATCHEE, WA 98801
33aNPI1518398759assigned 12/12/2013
33bProvider typeAddiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor
28Total paid$693K
24GClaims9,754
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor providers in Washington
Rank by total paid#22 of 85
Median peer was paid$131K
This provider vs. median5.3×
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 | 938 | $46K | |
| 2019 | 2,000 | $96K | |
| 2020 | 1,858 | $108K | |
| 2021 | 1,547 | $116K | |
| 2022 | 1,487 | $126K | |
| 2023 | 1,046 | $101K | |
| 2024incomplete | 878 | $100K |
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 | 73% | 6,132 | 3,080 | $503K |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 20% | 2,752 | 919 | $141K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 3.7% | 290 | 289 | $25K |
| G0481 | Drug test(s), definitive, utilizing (1) drug identification methods able to identify individual drugs and distinguish between structural isomers (but not necessarily stereoisomers), including, but not limited to gc/ms (any type, single or tandem) and lc/ms (any type, single or tandem and excluding immunoassays (e.g., ia, eia, elisa, emit, fpia) and enzymatic methods (e.g., alcohol dehydrogenase)), (2) stable isotope or other universally recognized internal standards in all samples (e.g., to control for matrix effects, interferences and variations in signal strength), and (3) method or drug-specific calibration and matrix-matched quality control material (e.g., to control for instrument variations and mass spectral drift); qualitative or quantitative, all sources, includes specimen validity testing, per day; 8-14 drug class(es), including metabolite(s) if performed | 3.4% | 580 | 373 | $24K |
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 officialPAYNE, MELISSA (OWNER)