Behavioral
Connections Family and Behavioral Therapy Services, INC
Connections Family and Behavioral Therapy Services, INC was paid $1.34M by Medicaid between Jul 2019 and Nov 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 90837, psychotherapy session, about an hour — 97% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCONNECTIONS FAMILY AND BEHAVIORAL THERAPY SERVICES, INC
SALINAS, CA 93901
SALINAS, CA 93901
33aNPI1972070100assigned 10/25/2018
33bProvider typeMarriage & Family Therapist
28Total paid$1.34M
24GClaims12,067
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJul 2019 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Marriage & Family Therapist providers in California
Rank by total paid#54 of 1,717
Median peer was paid$66K
This provider vs. median20×
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 Concentration97% 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 645 | $47K | |
| 2020 | 1,271 | $116K | |
| 2021 | 1,724 | $181K | |
| 2022 | 2,089 | $259K | |
| 2023 | 2,947 | $354K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,391 | $387K |
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 | 97% | 11,373 | 4,005 | $1.30M |
| 90791 | Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 2.6% | 228 | 197 | $34K |
| T1014 | Telehealth transmission, per minute, professional services bill separately | <1% | 466 | 183 | $12K |
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 officialLARA, PATRICIA (CEO)