Behavioral
Maria S. Flax, PH.D., Licensed Psychologist, INC.
Maria S. Flax, PH.D., Licensed Psychologist, INC. was paid $424K by Medicaid between Nov 2021 and Sep 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 99% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMARIA S. FLAX, PH.D., LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST, INC.
TEMECULA, CA 92590
TEMECULA, CA 92590
33aNPI1811598881assigned 11/05/2020
33bProvider typePsychologist
28Total paid$424K
24GClaims2,858
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthNov 2021 – Sep 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Psychologist providers in California
Rank by total paid#45 of 211
Median peer was paid$79K
This provider vs. median5.4×
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 | 153 | $24K | |
| 2022 | 850 | $133K | |
| 2023 | 1,007 | $149K | |
| 2024incomplete | 848 | $118K |
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 | 99% | 2,791 | 738 | $420K |
| G0323 | Care management services for behavioral health conditions, at least 20 minutes of clinical psychologist, clinical social worker, mental health counselor, or marriage and family therapist time, per calendar month. (these services include the following required elements: initial assessment or follow-up monitoring, including the use of applicable validated rating scales; behavioral health care planning in relation to behavioral/psychiatric health problems, including revision for patients who are not progressing or whose status changes; facilitating and coordinating treatment such as psychotherapy, coordination with and/or referral to physicians and practitioners who are authorized by medicare to prescribe medications and furnish e/m services, counseling and/or psychiatric consultation; and continuity of care with a designated member of the care team) | <1% | 67 | 66 | $4K |
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 officialFLAX, MARIA (PRESIDENT/OWNER)