Dental
Best, Steven
Best, Steven was paid $1.97M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is D7240, Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony — 41% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBEST, STEVEN
SUMMERFIELD, NC 27358
SUMMERFIELD, NC 27358
33aNPI1053515692assigned 06/14/2007
33bProvider typeOral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)
28Total paid$1.97M
24GClaims20,339
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#16 of 67
Median peer was paid$407K
This provider vs. median4.8×
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 | 1,124 | $90K | |
| 2019 | 1,557 | $134K | |
| 2020 | 1,336 | $116K | |
| 2021 | 2,691 | $286K | |
| 2022 | 4,751 | $462K | |
| 2023 | 4,542 | $472K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,338 | $410K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D7240 | Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony | 41% | 4,272 | 1,251 | $817K |
| D7210 | Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth | 30% | 5,542 | 1,854 | $584K |
| D9223 | Deep sedation/general anesthesia - each subsequent 15 minute increment | 8.2% | 2,368 | 1,665 | $162K |
| D9222 | 7.4% | 2,193 | 1,991 | $145K | |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 6.9% | 3,741 | 3,638 | $136K |
| D9612 | 5.0% | 1,772 | 1,673 | $99K | |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | <1% | 296 | 286 | $14K |
| D7140 | Extraction, erupted tooth or exposed root | <1% | 129 | 30 | $8K |
| D7280 | <1% | 26 | 14 | $4K |
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.