Dental
Children's Dentistry of Merced a Dental Office of Steven O'hara, DDS,
Children's Dentistry of Merced a Dental Office of Steven O'hara, DDS, was paid $5.74M by Medicaid between Aug 2020 and Dec 2024, across 31 billing codes. Its largest line is D1120, dental cleaning, child — 15% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHILDREN'S DENTISTRY OF MERCED A DENTAL OFFICE OF STEVEN O'HARA, DDS,
MERCED, CA 95348
MERCED, CA 95348
33aNPI1093335713assigned 04/22/2020
33bProvider typeOrthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedic Dentist
28Total paid$5.74M
24GClaims181,357
24DCodes billed31
24AFirst – last monthAug 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedic Dentist providers in California
Rank by total paid#25 of 251
Median peer was paid$303K
This provider vs. median19×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 4,968 | $136K | |
| 2021 | 26,386 | $771K | |
| 2022 | 42,111 | $1.32M | |
| 2023 | 55,062 | $1.80M | |
| 2024incomplete | 52,830 | $1.71M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 15% | 18,085 | 17,986 | $880K |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 13% | 10,720 | 10,652 | $753K |
| D1310 | 8.3% | 10,409 | 10,351 | $474K | |
| D2392 | Resin-based composite - two surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent | 7.0% | 6,042 | 3,260 | $403K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 6.4% | 5,376 | 5,356 | $369K |
| D1206 | Topical application of fluoride varnish | 6.3% | 17,398 | 17,299 | $359K |
| D1351 | Sealant - per tooth | 6.2% | 10,296 | 3,165 | $353K |
| D2930 | Prefabricated stainless steel crown - primary tooth | 5.8% | 2,808 | 1,739 | $333K |
| D9230 | Inhalation of nitrous oxide / analgesia, anxiolysis | 4.3% | 6,185 | 5,972 | $247K |
| D2391 | Resin-based composite - one surface, posterior, primary or permanent | 3.6% | 3,810 | 2,177 | $206K |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | 3.4% | 45,948 | 13,151 | $193K |
| D0145 | Oral evaluation for a patient under three years of age | 3.2% | 2,711 | 2,700 | $186K |
19 more codes
| D2330 | 2.3% | 1,674 | $130K | |
| D7140 | Extraction, erupted tooth or exposed root | 2.1% | 2,163 | $123K |
| D0603 | 2.1% | 8,244 | $122K | |
| D9993 | 1.9% | 1,668 | $107K | |
| D0350 | 1.5% | 8,174 | $86K | |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 1.3% | 6,393 | $76K |
| D1510 | 1.1% | 312 | $63K | |
| D0272 | Bitewings - two radiographic images | 1.0% | 5,096 | $60K |
| D0210 | Intraoral - complete series of radiographic images | <1% | 1,143 | $53K |
| D0274 | Bitewings - four radiographic images | <1% | 2,282 | $48K |
| D9430 | <1% | 1,127 | $36K | |
| D0602 | <1% | 1,888 | $28K | |
| D2331 | <1% | 201 | $16K | |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | <1% | 411 | $11K |
| D1354 | <1% | 555 | $9K | |
| D2393 | Resin-based composite - three surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent | <1% | 82 | $7K |
| D7111 | <1% | 53 | $3K | |
| D3220 | Therapeutic pulpotomy (excluding final restoration) - removal of pulp coronal to the dentinocemental junction | <1% | 15 | $1K |
| D0601 | <1% | 88 | $1K |
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 officialO'HARA, STEVEN (OWNER/PRESIDENT)