Vella, Joseph

Vella, Joseph was paid $4.57M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is H0036, community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutes — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoVELLA, JOSEPH
BETHLEHEM, PA 18020

33aNPI1952756009assigned 04/26/2016

33bProvider typeAddiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor

28Total paid$4.57M

24GClaims16,042

24DCodes billed1

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

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

Rank by total paid#9 of 83

Median peer was paid$213K

This provider vs. median21×

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 H0036 with only 1 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	1,791	$473K
2019	1,960	$553K
2020	2,754	$632K
2021	2,551	$724K
2022	2,325	$683K
2023	2,573	$780K
2024incomplete	2,088	$722K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
H0036	Community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutesCommunity psychiatric supportive treatment, face-to-face, per 15 minutes	100%	16,042	4,252	$4.57M

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.