Sierra Blanca Counseling

Sierra Blanca Counseling was paid $774K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 98% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSIERRA BLANCA COUNSELING
RUIDOSO, NM 88345

33aNPI1770941486assigned 02/09/2016

33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor

28Total paid$774K

24GClaims7,396

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in New Mexico

Rank by total paid#29 of 159

Median peer was paid$100K

This provider vs. median7.8×

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
2018	1,751	$139K
2019	2,183	$195K
2020	1,460	$181K
2021	555	$69K
2022	898	$114K
2023	452	$61K
2024incomplete	97	$15K

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%	7,271	3,002	$760K
90847	Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes	<1%	85	51	$8K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	40	40	$6K

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 officialFLEMING, EMILY (OWNER/THERAPIST)