Shamlou, Samira

Shamlou, Samira was paid $507K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 97% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSHAMLOU, SAMIRA
WESTMINSTER, CA 92683

33aNPI1629396668assigned 05/14/2010

33bProvider typeMarriage & Family Therapist

28Total paid$507K

24GClaims6,651

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Marriage & Family Therapist providers in California

Rank by total paid#191 of 1,717

Median peer was paid$66K

This provider vs. median7.7×

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	756	$49K
2019	897	$57K
2020	1,060	$68K
2021	1,097	$71K
2022	1,023	$66K
2023	856	$84K
2024incomplete	962	$112K

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	97%	6,401	2,700	$491K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	2.7%	219	96	$14K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	31	24	$2K

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.