Smargon, Sierra

Smargon, Sierra was paid $36K by Medicaid between Mar 2022 and Jul 2022, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 94% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSMARGON, SIERRA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93111

33aNPI1811395569assigned 12/11/2014

33bProvider typeCounselor

28Total paid$36K

24GClaims341

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthMar 2022 – Jul 2022

Compared with peers

Next to other Counselor providers in California

Rank by total paid#69 of 107

Median peer was paid$68K

This provider vs. median0.5×

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
2022	341	$36K

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	94%	327	103	$34K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	5.9%	14	13	$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.