Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center

Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center was paid $350K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 55% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoDES MOINES PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER
URBANDALE, IA 50322

33aNPI1578574786assigned 08/11/2006

33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor

28Total paid$350K

24GClaims6,819

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Iowa

Rank by total paid#39 of 277

Median peer was paid$48K

This provider vs. median7.3×

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	1,295	$60K
2019	1,842	$88K
2020	1,056	$46K
2021	771	$38K
2022	546	$25K
2023	511	$26K
2024incomplete	798	$67K

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	55%	2,983	1,426	$192K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	30%	1,914	823	$105K
99214	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity	14%	1,625	1,447	$51K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	16	12	$1K
90785		<1%	281	144	$770.78

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 officialDUKE, ELLERY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)