Second Chance Counseling, LLC

Second Chance Counseling, LLC was paid $2.92M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2023, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSECOND CHANCE COUNSELING, LLC
FARMINGTON, NM 87401

33aNPI1922455609assigned 05/23/2016

33bProvider typeAddiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor

28Total paid$2.92M

24GClaims19,722

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor providers in New Mexico

Rank by total paid#7 of 42

Median peer was paid$270K

This provider vs. median11×

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 Concentration100% 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	1,012	$80K
2019	1,158	$104K
2020	2,278	$309K
2021	5,109	$1.17M
2022	5,866	$726K
2023	4,299	$533K

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	100%	19,638	3,288	$2.91M
90847	Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes	<1%	54	35	$7K
H0031	Mental health assessment, by non-physician	<1%	30	27	$5K

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 officialHAWTHORNE, ALISHA (CEO)