Stephens, Lenese

Stephens, Lenese was paid $1.13M by Medicaid between Aug 2018 and Mar 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSTEPHENS, LENESE
BOWIE, MD 20716

33aNPI1659791853assigned 04/27/2014

33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor

28Total paid$1.13M

24GClaims14,350

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthAug 2018 – Mar 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in Maryland

Rank by total paid#64 of 400

Median peer was paid$112K

This provider vs. median10×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Single-Code Concentration100% of spending on code 90834 with only 2 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.

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	229	$16K
2019	672	$47K
2020	6,664	$486K
2021	1,193	$94K
2022	2,863	$244K
2023	2,512	$225K
2024incomplete	217	$21K

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	100%	14,330	3,315	$1.13M
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	20	18	$3K

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.