Agency
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
Lutheran Community Services Northwest was paid $273K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jun 2021, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 75% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST
VANCOUVER, WA 98663
VANCOUVER, WA 98663
33aNPI1700218815assigned 07/31/2013
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$273K
24GClaims2,583
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jun 2021
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in Washington
Rank by total paid#94 of 176
Median peer was paid$340K
This provider vs. median0.8×
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.
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 | 684 | $67K | |
| 2019 | 835 | $79K | |
| 2020 | 720 | $85K | |
| 2021 | 344 | $42K |
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 | 75% | 1,576 | 713 | $205K |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 12% | 329 | 187 | $33K |
| 99214 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity | 11% | 335 | 293 | $30K |
| H0046 | Mental health services, not otherwise specified | <1% | 194 | 138 | $3K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 13 | 12 | $2K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | <1% | 18 | 16 | $906.58 |
| H2021 | Community-based wrap-around services, per 15 minutes | 0% | 76 | 53 | $0.00 |
| H2015 | Community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutesComprehensive community support services, per 15 minutes | 0% | 13 | 12 | $0.00 |
| H0032 | Mental health service plan development by non-physician | 0% | 29 | 25 | $0.00 |
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 officialNESTAAS, ROBERTA (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Parent organizationLUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST