Behavioral
Life Strategies Counseling Services INC.
Life Strategies Counseling Services INC. was paid $463K by Medicaid between Sep 2020 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 57% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLIFE STRATEGIES COUNSELING SERVICES INC.
BECKLEY, WV 25801
BECKLEY, WV 25801
33aNPI1700837143assigned 05/12/2006
33bProvider typeClinical Social Worker
28Total paid$463K
24GClaims5,688
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthSep 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Social Worker providers in West Virginia
Rank by total paid#10 of 35
Median peer was paid$97K
This provider vs. median4.8×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 161 | $9K | |
| 2021 | 900 | $38K | |
| 2022 | 244 | $15K | |
| 2023 | 1,635 | $120K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,748 | $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 | 57% | 2,653 | 1,557 | $266K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 15% | 595 | 576 | $68K |
| 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 | 13% | 1,070 | 974 | $61K |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 12% | 873 | 514 | $54K |
| 99204 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity | 2.4% | 228 | 192 | $11K |
| 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% | 48 | 44 | $3K |
| 96127 | <1% | 221 | 193 | $443.27 |
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 officialSMITH, HAMLET (PRESIDENT)