Behavioral
OIG excluded
Sinclair, Valerie
Sinclair, Valerie was paid $735K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2022, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 98% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSINCLAIR, VALERIE
LUMBERTON, NC 28358
LUMBERTON, NC 28358
33aNPI1770738460assigned 11/21/2008
33bProvider typeMarriage & Family Therapist
28Total paid$735K
24GClaims9,122
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jul 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Marriage & Family Therapist providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#3 of 33
Median peer was paid$36K
This provider vs. median21×
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 (12/19/2024).
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 | 2,698 | $228K | |
| 2019 | 2,468 | $208K | |
| 2020 | 1,477 | $122K | |
| 2021 | 1,527 | $119K | |
| 2022 | 952 | $59K |
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 | 98% | 8,998 | 2,182 | $722K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 1.6% | 111 | 109 | $12K |
| 90837GT | <1% | 13 | 13 | $1K |
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.