Caraker, Karen

Caraker, Karen was paid $181K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Apr 2022, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 65% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCARAKER, KAREN
NORTHAMPTON, MA 01060

33aNPI1619288362assigned 06/28/2010

33bProvider typeClinical Social Worker

28Total paid$181K

24GClaims3,559

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Apr 2022

Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Social Worker providers in Massachusetts

Rank by total paid#95 of 541

Median peer was paid$29K

This provider vs. median6.3×

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	645	$32K
2019	1,140	$54K
2020	783	$40K
2021	800	$41K
2022	191	$14K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	65%	1,604	1,306	$118K
90832	Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient	34%	1,923	1,533	$61K
90837	Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient	<1%	15	13	$1K
90853	Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group)	<1%	17	13	$459.78

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.