Chico Creek Counseling for Marriage and Family Apc

Chico Creek Counseling for Marriage and Family Apc was paid $1.23M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2022, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 98% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCHICO CREEK COUNSELING FOR MARRIAGE AND FAMILY APC
CHICO, CA 95928

33aNPI1780088047assigned 10/15/2014

33bProvider typeMarriage & Family Therapist

28Total paid$1.23M

24GClaims16,891

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2022

Compared with peers

Next to other Marriage & Family Therapist providers in California

Rank by total paid#63 of 1,717

Median peer was paid$66K

This provider vs. median19×

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.

Single-Code Concentration98% of spending on code 90837 with only 3 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.

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	1,745	$167K
2019	1,999	$196K
2020	3,013	$295K
2021	9,087	$478K
2022	1,047	$96K

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%	16,504	6,505	$1.20M
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	2.1%	271	269	$26K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	<1%	116	74	$2K

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 officialTAYLOR, JOE (OWNER/THERAPIST)