Dental
Pezza, Joseph
Pezza, Joseph was paid $792K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is D8670, Periodic orthodontic treatment visit — 68% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPEZZA, JOSEPH
CRANSTON, RI 02920
CRANSTON, RI 02920
33aNPI1104985803assigned 12/08/2006
33bProvider typeOrthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedic Dentist
28Total paid$792K
24GClaims7,993
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jul 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedic Dentist providers in Rhode Island
Rank by total paid#9 of 15
Median peer was paid$822K
This provider vs. median1.0×
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 | 1,878 | $159K | |
| 2019 | 1,085 | $93K | |
| 2020 | 718 | $64K | |
| 2021 | 639 | $64K | |
| 2022 | 909 | $98K | |
| 2023 | 1,665 | $190K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,099 | $124K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D8670 | Periodic orthodontic treatment visit | 68% | 6,574 | 6,028 | $539K |
| D8660 | 25% | 1,140 | 1,109 | $200K | |
| D8080 | Comprehensive orthodontic treatment of the adolescent dentition | 5.3% | 29 | 29 | $42K |
| D9110 | 1.4% | 250 | 228 | $11K |
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.