Behavioral
Santa Barbara County Auditor
Santa Barbara County Auditor was paid $182.71M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 59 billing codes. Its largest line is H2017, psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutes — 16% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSANTA BARBARA COUNTY AUDITOR
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93110
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93110
33aNPI1740353861assigned 11/16/2006
33bProvider typePsychologist
28Total paid$182.71M
24GClaims2,035,763
24DCodes billed59
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Psychologist providers in California
Rank by total paid#1 of 211
Median peer was paid$79K
This provider vs. median2,322×
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 | 319,768 | $16.49M | |
| 2019 | 310,625 | $20.85M | |
| 2020 | 298,169 | $23.82M | |
| 2021 | 269,827 | $22.44M | |
| 2022 | 264,143 | $24.38M | |
| 2023 | 293,046 | $33.76M | |
| 2024incomplete | 280,185 | $40.96M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2017 | Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes | 16% | 158,240 | 38,470 | $29.03M |
| H2015 | Community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutesComprehensive community support services, per 15 minutes | 15% | 106,854 | 33,793 | $26.94M |
| H0004 | Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes | 11% | 184,873 | 61,849 | $20.76M |
| H0020 | Alcohol and/or drug services; methadone administration and/or service (provision of the drug by a licensed program) | 8.7% | 1,034,732 | 40,230 | $15.91M |
| H0018 | Behavioral health; short-term residential (non-hospital residential treatment program), without room and board, per diem | 8.7% | 32,780 | 2,499 | $15.83M |
| H0019 | Behavioral health; long-term residential (non-medical, non-acute care in a residential treatment program where stay is typically longer than 30 days), without room and board, per diem | 7.2% | 76,216 | 4,343 | $13.24M |
| H0005 | Alcohol and/or drug services; group counseling by a clinician | 5.6% | 166,676 | 25,421 | $10.26M |
| T1017 | Case management, billed per 15 minutesTargeted case management, each 15 minutes | 5.5% | 67,179 | 28,345 | $10.08M |
| H0034 | Medication training and support, per 15 minutes | 3.0% | 31,672 | 13,343 | $5.41M |
| 90837 | Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient | 2.3% | 14,409 | 7,289 | $4.29M |
| H2019 | Therapeutic behavioral services, billed per 15 minutesTherapeutic behavioral services, per 15 minutes | 2.1% | 11,177 | 1,498 | $3.81M |
| S9484 | Crisis intervention mental health services, per hour | 2.0% | 701 | 463 | $3.67M |
47 more codes
| H2011 | Crisis intervention service, per 15 minutes | 2.0% | 9,310 | $3.63M |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex) | 1.8% | 4,785 | $3.26M |
| H2010 | Comprehensive medication services, per 15 minutes | 1.3% | 8,996 | $2.32M |
| 99214 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) | 1.1% | 4,182 | $2.06M |
| H0032 | Mental health service plan development by non-physician | 1.1% | 14,953 | $2.04M |
| S5000 | Prescription drug, generic | <1% | 52,366 | $1.55M |
| G2212 | Prolonged office or other outpatient evaluation and management service(s) beyond the maximum required time of the primary procedure which has been selected using total time on the date of the primary service; each additional 15 minutes by the physician or qualified healthcare professional, with or without direct patient contact (list separately in addition to cpt codes 99205, 99215, 99483 for office or other outpatient evaluation and management services) (do not report g2212 on the same date of service as 99358, 99359, 99415, 99416). (do not report g2212 for any time unit less than 15 minutes) | <1% | 5,796 | $1.50M |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes | <1% | 3,676 | $836K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) | <1% | 1,695 | $556K |
| H0006 | Alcohol and/or drug services; case management | <1% | 6,513 | $555K |
| T1001 | Nursing assessment / evaluation | <1% | 3,257 | $481K |
| H0033 | Oral medication administration, direct observation | <1% | 4,160 | $446K |
| H0015 | Alcohol and/or drug services; intensive outpatient (treatment program that operates at least 3 hours/day and at least 3 days/week and is based on an individualized treatment plan), including assessment, counseling; crisis intervention, and activity therapies or education | <1% | 6,589 | $437K |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | <1% | 1,524 | $371K |
| H0038 | Self-help/peer services, per 15 minutes | <1% | 3,918 | $340K |
| T2021 | Day program for adults with developmental disabilities, per 15 minutes | <1% | 870 | $333K |
| H2021 | Community-based wrap-around services, per 15 minutes | <1% | 1,479 | $331K |
| T2024 | Service assessment/plan of care development, waiver | <1% | 447 | $312K |
| H0012 | Alcohol and/or drug services; sub-acute detoxification (residential addiction program outpatient) | <1% | 1,782 | $238K |
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutes | <1% | 1,635 | $234K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 2,318 | $225K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 204 | $178K |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | <1% | 1,312 | $154K |
| G0397 | Alcohol and/or substance (other than tobacco) misuse structured assessment (e.g., audit, dast), and intervention, greater than 30 minutes | <1% | 558 | $147K |
| H0050 | Alcohol and/or drug services, brief intervention, per 15 minutes | <1% | 3,034 | $140K |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | <1% | 806 | $134K |
| 99415 | Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 103 | $107K |
| 99231 | Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity | <1% | 144 | $83K |
| 99367 | <1% | 108 | $83K | |
| H0001 | Alcohol and/or drug assessment | <1% | 366 | $82K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day | <1% | 730 | $60K |
| H0049 | Alcohol and/or drug screening | <1% | 128 | $60K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) | <1% | 182 | $53K |
| 96127 | <1% | 247 | $34K | |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | <1% | 19 | $21K |
| H2000 | Comprehensive multidisciplinary evaluation | <1% | 75 | $14K |
| H0031 | Mental health assessment, by non-physician | <1% | 86 | $12K |
| T1013 | Sign language or oral interpretive services, per 15 minutes | <1% | 217 | $10K |
| G0316 | Prolonged hospital inpatient or observation care evaluation and management service(s) beyond the total time for the primary service (when the primary service has been selected using time on the date of the primary service); each additional 15 minutes by the physician or qualified healthcare professional, with or without direct patient contact (list separately in addition to cpt codes 99223, 99233, and 99236 for hospital inpatient or observation care evaluation and management services). (do not report g0316 on the same date of service as other prolonged services for evaluation and management 99358, 99359, 99418, 99415, 99416). (do not report g0316 for any time unit less than 15 minutes) | <1% | 21 | $9K |
| 99484 | <1% | 33 | $8K | |
| 90792 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | <1% | 51 | $6K |
| H0025 | Behavioral health prevention education service (delivery of services with target population to affect knowledge, attitude and/or behavior) | <1% | 62 | $4K |
| 90889 | <1% | 153 | $3K | |
| 90885 | <1% | 312 | $2K | |
| G0396 | Alcohol and/or substance (other than tobacco) misuse structured assessment (e.g., audit, dast), and brief intervention 15 to 30 minutes | <1% | 12 | $1K |
| 90785 | <1% | 991 | $33.00 | |
| 90853 | Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group) | 0% | 49 | $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 officialDIAZ, STEPHANIE (QCM/COUNTY DESIGNEE)
Parent organizationSANTA BARBARA COUNTY AUDITOR