Duluth Counseling Center

Duluth Counseling Center was paid $2.56M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 99% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoDULUTH COUNSELING CENTER
DULUTH, MN 55802

33aNPI1679815823assigned 03/25/2013

33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency

28Total paid$2.56M

24GClaims30,594

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Minnesota

Rank by total paid#91 of 312

Median peer was paid$741K

This provider vs. median3.5×

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 Concentration99% of spending on code 90837 with only 3 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	2,076	$48K
2019	2,741	$212K
2020	4,499	$372K
2021	6,829	$592K
2022	6,651	$609K
2023	4,776	$446K
2024incomplete	3,022	$281K

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	99%	30,378	12,185	$2.54M
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	197	180	$21K
90785		<1%	19	18	$267.20

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 officialERICKSON, KATIE (OWNER)