Agency
The Nurturing Center
The Nurturing Center was paid $2.11M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 39% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTHE NURTURING CENTER
COLUMBIA, SC 29201
COLUMBIA, SC 29201
33aNPI1831543891assigned 04/15/2016
33bProvider typeCommunity/Behavioral Health Agency
28Total paid$2.11M
24GClaims22,277
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Community/Behavioral Health Agency providers in South Carolina
Rank by total paid#24 of 79
Median peer was paid$526K
This provider vs. median4.0×
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 | 5,207 | $411K | |
| 2019 | 5,338 | $410K | |
| 2020 | 2,584 | $280K | |
| 2021 | 3,107 | $318K | |
| 2022 | 2,300 | $263K | |
| 2023 | 2,041 | $232K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,700 | $197K |
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 | 39% | 7,522 | 3,057 | $816K |
| 90846 | Family psychotherapy without the patient present, 50 minutes | 22% | 4,368 | 2,272 | $465K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 14% | 1,992 | 1,945 | $296K |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | 13% | 2,659 | 1,544 | $283K |
| H2017 | Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutesPsychosocial rehabilitation services, per 15 minutes | 8.1% | 3,656 | 643 | $171K |
| S9482 | Family stabilization services, per 15 minutes | 2.4% | 527 | 247 | $51K |
| H0032 | Mental health service plan development by non-physician | <1% | 490 | 376 | $11K |
| 90853 | Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group) | <1% | 677 | 129 | $11K |
| H0002 | Behavioral health screening to determine eligibility for admission to treatment program | <1% | 386 | 278 | $9K |
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 officialRIVERS, EMILY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)