Lax, Michael

Lax, Michael was paid $3K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Apr 2018, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 76% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoLAX, MICHAEL
EDISON, NJ 08817

33aNPI1770973679assigned 01/29/2015

33bProvider typePsychologist

28Total paid$3K

24GClaims138

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Apr 2018

Compared with peers

Next to other Psychologist providers in New Jersey

Rank by total paid#43 of 46

Median peer was paid$99K

This provider vs. median0.0×

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	138	$3K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	76%	76	45	$2K
90832	Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient	20%	39	26	$631.65
90853	Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group)	4.3%	23	12	$135.52

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.