Behavioral
Vertula, Gary
Vertula, Gary was paid $651K by Medicaid between Oct 2018 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 98% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoVERTULA, GARY
BRIDGEPORT, CT 06606
BRIDGEPORT, CT 06606
33aNPI1780130674assigned 08/30/2016
33bProvider typeProfessional Counselor
28Total paid$651K
24GClaims7,007
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthOct 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Professional Counselor providers in Connecticut
Rank by total paid#34 of 418
Median peer was paid$79K
This provider vs. median8.3×
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 | 120 | $9K | |
| 2019 | 984 | $90K | |
| 2020 | 1,316 | $118K | |
| 2021 | 1,508 | $138K | |
| 2022 | 1,303 | $125K | |
| 2023 | 938 | $89K | |
| 2024incomplete | 838 | $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 | 98% | 6,818 | 2,462 | $637K |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 1.1% | 118 | 94 | $7K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 31 | 31 | $3K |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | <1% | 40 | 26 | $3K |
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.