Clinic
Creative Change Counseling
Creative Change Counseling was paid $13.70M by Medicaid between Dec 2020 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 90847, Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes — 56% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCREATIVE CHANGE COUNSELING
LUMBERTON, NJ 08048
LUMBERTON, NJ 08048
33aNPI1841813722assigned 05/26/2020
33bProvider typeAdult Mental Health Clinic/Center
28Total paid$13.70M
24GClaims121,780
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthDec 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Adult Mental Health Clinic/Center providers in New Jersey
Rank by total paid#4 of 45
Median peer was paid$2.68M
This provider vs. median5.1×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 30 | $3K | |
| 2021 | 8,798 | $878K | |
| 2022 | 16,343 | $1.74M | |
| 2023 | 33,763 | $3.68M | |
| 2024incomplete | 62,846 | $7.40M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | 56% | 62,448 | 13,573 | $7.63M |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 38% | 53,108 | 15,299 | $5.14M |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 3.8% | 4,220 | 2,921 | $516K |
| 90792 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | 1.8% | 599 | 577 | $245K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 709 | 666 | $121K |
| 99214 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity | <1% | 288 | 258 | $27K |
| 90837 | Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient | <1% | 408 | 262 | $18K |
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 officialTHOMAS, BERTEE (CEO)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Creative Change Counseling | Hickory, NC | $9.66M |
| Minsec Treatment Center | Philadelphia, PA | $774K |
| Creative Change Counseling | Lumberton, NJ | $227K |
| Creative Change Counseling, INC. | Lumberton, NJ | $182K |
| Creative Change Counseling, INC. | Lakewood, NJ | $10K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.