Tichy, Valerie

Tichy, Valerie was paid $103K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2021, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 85% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTICHY, VALERIE
CLEAR LAKE, IA 50428

33aNPI1639545064assigned 08/19/2015

33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor

28Total paid$103K

24GClaims1,704

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2021

Compared with peers

Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Iowa

Rank by total paid#89 of 277

Median peer was paid$48K

This provider vs. median2.1×

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	698	$39K
2019	610	$36K
2020	45	$3K
2021	351	$25K

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	85%	1,274	792	$87K
90832	Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient	8.5%	195	137	$9K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	6.3%	68	64	$6K
90785		<1%	167	111	$652.00

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.