Clinician type
Addiction Counselors
At a glance
- Practicing in the U.S.
- 96,350
- Per 100,000 residents
- 28.5
- Women
- 66%
- Median years since graduating
- 11
Who they are
- Women 66%
- Graduated 35 or more years ago 6%
- Offer telehealth 23%
- Accept Medicare’s approved amount 67%
Sex and credentials from NPPES. Graduation year, telehealth and Medicare assignment from Medicare Care Compare, which covers clinicians enrolled in Medicare.
Where they practice
What they do most for Medicare patients
- Medication assisted treatment, methadone; weekly bundle including dispensing and/or administration, substance use counseling, individual and group therapy, and toxicology testing, if performed (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatm 28,189
- Psychotherapy, 1 hour 9,621
- Psychotherapy, 45 minutes 5,443
- Take-home supply of methadone; up to 7 additional day supply (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program); list separately in addition to code for primary procedure 2,596
- Psychotherapy, 30 minutes 2,144
- Medication assisted treatment, weekly bundle not including the drug, including substance use counseling, individual and group therapy, and toxicology testing if performed (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program) 721
- Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation 637
- Psychiatric services complicated by communication factor 613
- Periodic assessment; assessing periodically by qualified personnel to determine the most appropriate combination of services and treatment (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program); list separately in addition to code for 394
- Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes 263
- Psychotherapy with evaluation and management visit, 30 minutes 254
- Telehealth originating site facility fee 189
Services billed to traditional Medicare in 2023 (Physician and Other Practitioners data); drugs given in the office are left out.
What they prescribe most
- Atorvastatin Calcium (Atorvaliq, Lipitor) 14.1%
- Alprazolam (Xanax, Xanax Xr) 4.3%
- Hydromorphone Hcl (Hydromorphone Er, Dilaudid) 4.3%
- Losartan Potassium (Cozaar) 4.0%
- Metformin Hcl (Glumetza, Metformin Er Gastric, Metformin Er Osmotic) 3.7%
- Lorazepam (Ativan, Loreev Xr) 3.6%
- Bupropion Hcl (Bupropion Xl, Wellbutrin Sr, Wellbutrin Xl) 3.6%
- Lisinopril (Qbrelis, Zestril) 3.5%
- Buprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl (Buprenorphine-Naloxone, Suboxone, Zubsolv) 3.5%
- Olanzapine (Zyprexa, Zyprexa Zydis) 3.0%
- Gabapentin (Gralise, Neurontin) 2.8%
- Clonazepam (Klonopin) 2.5%
- Ondansetron 2.5%
- Rsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf (Arexvy) 2.2%
- Trazodone Hcl 2.1%
Share of this specialty’s Medicare Part D prescriptions in 2024, including refills. Select a drug to see which of these clinicians prescribe it most, and where.
Hospitals where the most work
- Creek Nation Community Hospital Okemah, OK 2 Addiction Counselors at Creek Nation Community Hospital
- Lawrence & Memorial Hospital New London, CT 1 Addiction Counselors at Lawrence & Memorial Hospital
- Munson Medical Center Traverse City, MI 1 Addiction Counselors at Munson Medical Center
- Cherokee Nation W W Hastings Indian Hospital Tahlequah, OK 1 Addiction Counselors at Cherokee Nation W W Hastings Indian Hospital
- Community Hospital East Indianapolis, IN 1 Addiction Counselors at Community Hospital East
- Fillmore County Hospital Geneva, NE 1 Addiction Counselors at Fillmore County Hospital
- Musc Medical Center Charleston, SC 1 Addiction Counselors at Musc Medical Center
- Community Hospital Grand Junction, CO 1 Addiction Counselors at Community Hospital
- Henry Ford Health Hospital Detroit, MI 1 Addiction Counselors at Henry Ford Health Hospital
- Unc Hospitals Chapel Hill, NC 1 Addiction Counselors at Unc Hospitals
Clinicians who list the hospital in Medicare Care Compare. The number opens the list of who works there.
Schools they graduated from most
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine 4
- Central Michigan College of Medicine 3
- Fordham University School of Medicine 3
- Liberty Univ College of Osteopathic Medicine 3
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Medicine 3
- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine 3
- Wayne State University School of Medicine 3
- Bellevue Hospital Medical College 2
- Boston University School of Medicine 2
- Florida Atlantic University, College of Medicine 2
From Medicare Care Compare (Medicare-enrolled clinicians only).
Industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $873 in general payments to 13 clinicians in Addiction Counselors in 2025. See who received the most
Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2025. A payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Sources: CMS NPPES (counts, sex, credentials), Medicare Care Compare (schools, graduation years, hospitals, telehealth), CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners (2023) and Part D Prescribers (2024), CMS Open Payments (2025), ACGME program requirements (training length), OpenAlex (research), U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024 (population).