Behavioral
Small Steps Child Counseling, LLC
Small Steps Child Counseling, LLC was paid $5.47M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 90846, Family psychotherapy without the patient present, 50 minutes — 31% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSMALL STEPS CHILD COUNSELING, LLC
ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87102
ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87102
33aNPI1952699654assigned 07/14/2011
33bProvider typeProfessional Counselor
28Total paid$5.47M
24GClaims56,762
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Professional Counselor providers in New Mexico
Rank by total paid#4 of 134
Median peer was paid$107K
This provider vs. median51×
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 | 7,557 | $596K | |
| 2019 | 7,762 | $653K | |
| 2020 | 7,536 | $732K | |
| 2021 | 8,330 | $773K | |
| 2022 | 10,863 | $1.05M | |
| 2023 | 8,234 | $890K | |
| 2024incomplete | 6,480 | $771K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90846 | Family psychotherapy without the patient present, 50 minutes | 31% | 17,878 | 8,559 | $1.68M |
| 90847 | Family psychotherapy with the patient present, 50 minutes | 28% | 15,728 | 8,109 | $1.54M |
| 90837 | Psychotherapy session, about an hourPsychotherapy, 53 minutes with patient | 20% | 8,493 | 3,965 | $1.08M |
| 90834 | Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient | 19% | 12,682 | 6,216 | $1.03M |
| 90832 | Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient | 1.7% | 1,554 | 1,029 | $93K |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | <1% | 400 | 393 | $47K |
| 90853 | Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group) | <1% | 27 | 14 | $814.63 |
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 officialRILEY, KATHERINE (CREDENTIALING)