Sinkfield, Donald

Sinkfield, Donald was paid $792K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jun 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 82% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSINKFIELD, DONALD
VALLEY STREAM, NY 11580

33aNPI1932404670assigned 01/11/2011

33bProvider typeCounselor

28Total paid$792K

24GClaims9,147

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jun 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Counselor providers in New York

Rank by total paid#11 of 47

Median peer was paid$97K

This provider vs. median8.2×

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	1,564	$148K
2019	3,288	$297K
2020	1,520	$140K
2021	1,376	$109K
2022	740	$50K
2023	432	$31K
2024incomplete	227	$17K

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	82%	7,184	3,043	$651K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation	6.2%	509	451	$49K
90847	Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes	6.1%	732	265	$48K
90834	Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient	3.5%	559	299	$28K
90839		2.0%	163	159	$16K

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.