Providers

NICHOLAS ADAM BERGER, MA, LPC,BCN

NPI 1932504198, individual, Longmont, CO, Counselor, Professional

4
Evidence tier
structure or single-organization volume
  • Hours beyond a day in 3 months under one organization, which can be supervisory billing.
  • Records needed.
  • Medicaid dollars per patient on code 90837 ($442 per patient-month) sit in the top 5% of every provider billing that code.
score 55 of 100, rank 7758, $1.4M at stake

Hours billed per day

Medicaid billing converted into hours of hands-on care per day. The lower bound counts one unit per claim line and needs no price; the other two divide dollars by a unit price, the conservative one at 1.5 times the price. The clinician on the claim may be a supervisor under state rules, so billing organizations are counted too.

monthwhat was foundhours per day, lower boundhours per day, at pricehours per day, conservativeper working daypatientsbilling organizationscodespaid
Aug 2022More hours than a day holds, even counting one unit per claim line26.220.613.818.5131290791 90837 90876$70K
Sep 2022More hours than a day holds, even counting one unit per claim line32.828.318.825.7118290837 90876$91K
Oct 2022More hours than a day holds, even counting one unit per claim line29.327.518.427.1120290837 90876$92K

National provider registry

From the CMS NPPES Registry, refreshed daily.

NameNICHOLAS ADAM BERGER, MA, LPC,BCN
TypeIndividual
StatusActive
NPI issuedOctober 30, 2014, last updated July 10, 2025
Practice location720 100 YEARPARTY CT STE 200, Longmont, CO 80504-8591, 720-295-7427
Specialties
Counselor, Professional (101YP2500X, license 0011628 CO)
Counselor, Professional (101YP2500X, primary, license LPC0011628 CO)

Procedures billed

The specific codes behind the dollars. Medicaid figures come from T-MSIS (2018 to 2024) and are compared with every other provider billing the same code; Medicare figures come from the 2024 physician and supplier file and compare this provider's submitted charge with what Medicare allowed, against the usual ratio for that code.

Medicaid, largest codes
codewhat it ispaidshareper patient-monthtypicalrank among providers
90876Psychophysiological therapy with biofeedback 45 min$1.1M52%$392$392 (top 5% from $816)50th percentile
90837Psychotherapy, 1 hourhistory of abuse$981K47%$442$191 (top 5% from $442)95th percentile
90791Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation$11K1%$97$105 (top 5% from $228)too few months to rank

In this area

6 providers in Weld County, CO carry an indicator in the public record, with $13.8M at stake between them. The most common is more hours than a day holds, on 5 of them, followed by part of a provider network on 1.

tierproviderat stakewhy
3CENTER AT CENTERPLACE, LLC
Greeley, CO, ranked 4655
$0
  • Part of provider network D1-00140, ranked 140 nationally.
4MICHAEL MULLIN
Greeley, CO, ranked 7454
$5.0M
  • Hours beyond a day in 6 months, but with up to 707 patients a month, which points to a supervising clinician on the claims rather than one person's hours.
  • Records needed.
  • and 1 more
4THAD MAKOWSKI
Greeley, CO, ranked 7609
$2.6M
  • Hours beyond a day in 4 months, but with up to 1040 patients a month, which points to a supervising clinician on the claims rather than one person's hours.
  • Records needed.
  • and 1 more
4SARAH POFAHL
Greeley, CO, ranked 8421
$4.7M
  • Hours beyond a day in 20 months, but with up to 823 patients a month, which points to a supervising clinician on the claims rather than one person's hours.
  • Records needed.
5HEATHER DAIGLE
Greeley, CO, ranked 10224
$598K
  • Medicaid dollars per patient on code 99214 ($175 per patient-month) sit in the top 5% of every provider billing that code.
5SARAH WILLIAMSON
Greeley, CO, ranked 10584
$884K
  • 76% of Medicaid dollars are on codes with a history of abuse.

Recent enforcement in CO

All releases

Department of Justice and HHS-OIG releases for this state, newest first. Each opens in a new tab.

DOJIndictedJun 23, 2026
Colorado Man Charged In Medicaid Fraud Scheme Connected To Arapahoe County Adult Daycare
Omer offered three $500 kickback payments in exchange for referrals of Medicaid beneficiaries for adult daycare, and $10,000 in other kickback payments described as marketing expenses or office supply, to induce beneficiaries to attend Nadina Adult Daycare Center.
DOJCivil settlementNov 24, 2025
Southern Colorado Hospital and Doctors Agree to Pay $650,000 to Resolve Allegations That They Unlawfully Prescribed Opioids and Other Controlled Substances
Three physicians employed by Mt. San Rafael Hospital allegedly issued invalid prescriptions for controlled substances including opioids not for a legitimate medical purpose or outside the usual course of professional practice, and caused claims for those prescriptions to be submitted to Medicare and other federal health care programs.
DOJCivil settlementDec 3, 2024
$2 Million Resolves Kickback Allegations Relating to Denver Neuromonitoring Company
Assure paid remuneration to surgeons through joint venture companies to induce them to order intraoperative neuromonitoring services, resulting in claims submitted to federally funded healthcare programs.
DOJIndictedSep 24, 2024
Seven People Charged With Over $40 Million In Medicare And Medicaid Fraud
Defendants, through genetic testing laboratories they owned and operated, paid kickbacks and bribes to marketing companies for referrals for medically unnecessary genetic testing, resulting in more than $40 million in false and fraudulent claims paid by Medicare and Colorado Medicaid, and three defendants laundered the proceeds.

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