Behavioral
OIG excluded
Hickerson, April
Hickerson, April was paid $388K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2023, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 100% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoHICKERSON, APRIL
NEWARK, DE 19702
NEWARK, DE 19702
33aNPI1730273087assigned 10/03/2006
33bProvider typeClinical Social Worker
28Total paid$388K
24GClaims6,116
24DCodes billed1
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Social Worker providers in Delaware
Rank by total paid#4 of 54
Median peer was paid$31K
This provider vs. median12×
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.
OIG exclusionListed on the federal exclusion list (11/20/2024).
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 | 794 | $100.63 | |
| 2019 | 829 | $23K | |
| 2020 | 1,234 | $104K | |
| 2021 | 1,535 | $115K | |
| 2022 | 982 | $99K | |
| 2023 | 742 | $47K |
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 | 100% | 6,116 | 3,301 | $388K |
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.