Center for Professional Counseling

Center for Professional Counseling was paid $1.24M by Medicaid between Apr 2018 and Dec 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 97% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCENTER FOR PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING
WHEELING, WV 26003

33aNPI1669805925assigned 08/09/2013

33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor

28Total paid$1.24M

24GClaims12,582

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthApr 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in West Virginia

Rank by total paid#7 of 35

Median peer was paid$213K

This provider vs. median5.8×

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 Concentration97% of spending on code 90837 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	325	$41K
2019	1,005	$86K
2020	2,066	$225K
2021	1,977	$180K
2022	2,547	$250K
2023	2,402	$230K
2024incomplete	2,260	$231K

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%	12,284	6,601	$1.21M
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	2.5%	298	264	$32K

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 officialMULL, HEIDI (OWNER)