Behavioral
Novell & Novell Counseling
Novell & Novell Counseling was paid $4.63M by Medicaid between May 2018 and Nov 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 92% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoNOVELL & NOVELL COUNSELING
TEMECULA, CA 92591
TEMECULA, CA 92591
33aNPI1881743243assigned 01/08/2007
33bProvider typeMarriage & Family Therapist
28Total paid$4.63M
24GClaims45,149
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthMay 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Marriage & Family Therapist providers in California
Rank by total paid#12 of 1,717
Median peer was paid$66K
This provider vs. median70×
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Single-Code Concentration92% of spending on code 90837 with only 3 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
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 | 1,080 | $116K | |
| 2019 | 5,980 | $563K | |
| 2020 | 6,522 | $608K | |
| 2021 | 8,726 | $883K | |
| 2022 | 8,539 | $883K | |
| 2023 | 8,197 | $846K | |
| 2024incomplete | 6,105 | $734K |
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 | 92% | 40,020 | 17,532 | $4.25M |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 6.8% | 4,588 | 1,919 | $314K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 1.4% | 541 | 540 | $64K |
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 officialNOVELL, BENNIE (OWNER)