Valent Altamura, Melissa

Valent Altamura, Melissa was paid $186K by Medicaid between Sep 2021 and Apr 2022, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 97153, applied behavior analysis (autism therapy), per 15 minutes — 88% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoVALENT ALTAMURA, MELISSA
HACKETTSTOWN, NJ 07840

33aNPI1811381130assigned 03/25/2015

33bProvider typeBehavioral Analyst

28Total paid$186K

24GClaims1,522

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthSep 2021 – Apr 2022

Compared with peers

Next to other Behavioral Analyst providers in New Jersey

Rank by total paid#36 of 58

Median peer was paid$293K

This provider vs. median0.6×

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
2021	698	$76K
2022	824	$110K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
97153	Applied behavior analysis (autism therapy), per 15 minutesAdaptive behavior treatment by protocol, administered by technician, each 15 minutes	88%	1,384	100	$163K
97155	Adaptive behavior treatment with protocol modification, administered by physician, each 15 minutes	12%	138	37	$22K

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.