Shafar, Benjamin

Shafar, Benjamin was paid $210K by Medicaid between Feb 2022 and Oct 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 98% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSHAFAR, BENJAMIN
YAKIMA, WA 98901

33aNPI1609354257assigned 08/04/2018

33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor

28Total paid$210K

24GClaims2,657

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthFeb 2022 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Washington

Rank by total paid#82 of 368

Median peer was paid$48K

This provider vs. median4.4×

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	738	$68K
2023	1,330	$87K
2024incomplete	589	$55K

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%	2,206	467	$206K
90785		1.9%	451	86	$4K

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.