Friend, Melita

Friend, Melita was paid $40K by Medicaid between Dec 2019 and May 2023, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFRIEND, MELITA
OAKLAND, MD 21550

33aNPI1689197741assigned 07/20/2017

33bProvider typeCounselor

28Total paid$40K

24GClaims476

24DCodes billed1

24AFirst – last monthDec 2019 – May 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Counselor providers in Maryland

Rank by total paid#56 of 74

Median peer was paid$128K

This provider vs. median0.3×

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
2019	30	$2K
2021	65	$5K
2022	248	$21K
2023	133	$12K

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%	476	197	$40K

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.