Erwin-Pennington, Melanie

Erwin-Pennington, Melanie was paid $438K by Medicaid between Apr 2022 and Dec 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 98% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoERWIN-PENNINGTON, MELANIE
HAZARD, KY 41701

33aNPI1629548342assigned 11/26/2018

33bProvider typeProfessional Counselor

28Total paid$438K

24GClaims5,641

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthApr 2022 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Professional Counselor providers in Kentucky

Rank by total paid#70 of 255

Median peer was paid$129K

This provider vs. median3.4×

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	700	$53K
2023	2,481	$186K
2024incomplete	2,460	$200K

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%	5,274	1,919	$431K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	1.1%	63	56	$5K
H0032	Mental health service plan development by non-physician	<1%	132	128	$2K
90785		<1%	152	40	$620.00
90853	Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group)	<1%	20	13	$190.08

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.