Vafadar, Samira

Vafadar, Samira was paid $329K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2023, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 89% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoVAFADAR, SAMIRA
NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92660

33aNPI1689963514assigned 03/31/2011

33bProvider typeClinical Psychologist

28Total paid$329K

24GClaims4,306

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Psychologist providers in California

Rank by total paid#64 of 350

Median peer was paid$42K

This provider vs. median7.9×

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	828	$69K
2019	661	$50K
2020	620	$45K
2021	611	$41K
2022	822	$53K
2023	764	$72K

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	89%	3,903	1,662	$291K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	11%	403	207	$38K

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.