Pacific Counseling Associates

Pacific Counseling Associates was paid $410K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 78% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPACIFIC COUNSELING ASSOCIATES
SAN DIEGO, CA 92110

33aNPI1659810273assigned 02/15/2017

33bProvider typePsychologist

28Total paid$410K

24GClaims4,746

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jul 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Psychologist providers in California

Rank by total paid#46 of 211

Median peer was paid$79K

This provider vs. median5.2×

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	850	$70K
2019	697	$60K
2020	957	$87K
2021	920	$85K
2022	628	$51K
2023	561	$47K
2024incomplete	133	$11K

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	78%	3,978	1,778	$320K
90837	Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient	22%	768	484	$90K

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.

From NPPES

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialSUTTERFIELD, GEORGE (PSYCOTHERAPIST)