Behavioral
The Forge Counseling Group LLC
The Forge Counseling Group LLC was paid $689K by Medicaid between Aug 2020 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 98% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTHE FORGE COUNSELING GROUP LLC
SEARCY, AR 72143
SEARCY, AR 72143
33aNPI1558913517assigned 07/10/2019
33bProvider typeProfessional Counselor
28Total paid$689K
24GClaims8,123
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthAug 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Professional Counselor providers in Arkansas
Rank by total paid#5 of 56
Median peer was paid$25K
This provider vs. median27×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 973 | $72K | |
| 2021 | 1,851 | $136K | |
| 2022 | 1,492 | $129K | |
| 2023 | 2,195 | $204K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,612 | $147K |
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 | 98% | 7,873 | 3,376 | $674K |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 1.7% | 180 | 123 | $12K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 70 | 50 | $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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialCHANNING, ROBERT (LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR)