Dental
Lazari, Paul
Lazari, Paul was paid $1.04M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is D8670, Periodic orthodontic treatment visit — 95% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLAZARI, PAUL
CHICAGO, IL 60610
CHICAGO, IL 60610
33aNPI1083068928assigned 04/18/2016
33bProvider typeOrthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedic Dentist
28Total paid$1.04M
24GClaims4,430
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedic Dentist providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#13 of 88
Median peer was paid$221K
This provider vs. median4.7×
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 Concentration95% of spending on code D8670 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1,098 | $278K | |
| 2019 | 1,140 | $262K | |
| 2020 | 642 | $144K | |
| 2021 | 634 | $146K | |
| 2022 | 346 | $79K | |
| 2023 | 309 | $73K | |
| 2024incomplete | 261 | $62K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D8670 | Periodic orthodontic treatment visit | 95% | 4,283 | 4,165 | $996K |
| D8080 | Comprehensive orthodontic treatment of the adolescent dentition | 3.1% | 36 | 36 | $32K |
| D8680 | 1.5% | 111 | 109 | $16K |
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.