Barker, Melissa

Barker, Melissa was paid $406K by Medicaid between Mar 2018 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 84% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBARKER, MELISSA
ASHLAND, KY 41101

33aNPI1609973759assigned 09/20/2006

33bProvider typeProfessional Counselor

28Total paid$406K

24GClaims6,131

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthMar 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Professional Counselor providers in Kentucky

Rank by total paid#73 of 255

Median peer was paid$129K

This provider vs. median3.2×

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	183	$6K
2019	336	$14K
2020	530	$32K
2021	892	$50K
2022	1,086	$78K
2023	1,660	$112K
2024incomplete	1,444	$115K

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	84%	4,858	2,848	$341K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	10%	974	676	$41K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	5.7%	285	262	$23K
90832	Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient	<1%	14	13	$491.68

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.