Cornerstone Counseling Center

Cornerstone Counseling Center was paid $553K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 99% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCORNERSTONE COUNSELING CENTER
HICKORY, NC 28601

33aNPI1740371491assigned 09/27/2006

33bProvider typeProfessional Counselor

28Total paid$553K

24GClaims7,919

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Professional Counselor providers in North Carolina

Rank by total paid#50 of 214

Median peer was paid$108K

This provider vs. median5.1×

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	1,825	$137K
2019	1,190	$86K
2020	676	$52K
2021	864	$54K
2022	1,415	$78K
2023	1,110	$64K
2024incomplete	839	$81K

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	99%	7,782	3,631	$546K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	1.3%	137	90	$7K

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 officialRICHEY, BESSIE (OFFICE MANAGER)