Buell, Laura

Buell, Laura was paid $50K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2023, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 74% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBUELL, LAURA
ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87114

33aNPI1861797870assigned 01/21/2011

33bProvider typeMental Health Counselor

28Total paid$50K

24GClaims720

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Mental Health Counselor providers in New Mexico

Rank by total paid#99 of 159

Median peer was paid$100K

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
2018	291	$22K
2019	110	$8K
2020	98	$6K
2021	133	$7K
2022	60	$5K
2023	28	$3K

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	74%	474	224	$37K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	26%	246	136	$13K

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.