Dental
Ekunwe, Carletta
Ekunwe, Carletta was paid $1.11M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 24 billing codes. Its largest line is D8670, Periodic orthodontic treatment visit — 22% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoEKUNWE, CARLETTA
HATTIESBURG, MS 39401
HATTIESBURG, MS 39401
33aNPI1275513046assigned 01/18/2006
33bProvider typeDentist
28Total paid$1.11M
24GClaims42,593
24DCodes billed24
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Dentist providers in Mississippi
Rank by total paid#18 of 261
Median peer was paid$64K
This provider vs. median17×
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 | 14,518 | $220K | |
| 2019 | 8,977 | $292K | |
| 2020 | 6,561 | $218K | |
| 2021 | 4,788 | $159K | |
| 2022 | 2,834 | $72K | |
| 2023 | 3,196 | $94K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,719 | $53K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D8670 | Periodic orthodontic treatment visit | 22% | 2,999 | 2,288 | $244K |
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 13% | 7,174 | 5,503 | $147K |
| D1351 | Sealant - per tooth | 9.8% | 5,266 | 697 | $109K |
| D1206 | Topical application of fluoride varnish | 9.6% | 6,113 | 4,815 | $106K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 7.8% | 4,285 | 2,777 | $86K |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 6.1% | 2,625 | 1,975 | $68K |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 6.1% | 2,659 | 2,483 | $67K |
| D0274 | Bitewings - four radiographic images | 5.5% | 3,965 | 3,050 | $61K |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 4.5% | 1,730 | 1,326 | $50K |
| D2392 | Resin-based composite - two surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent | 3.2% | 511 | 225 | $36K |
| D2391 | Resin-based composite - one surface, posterior, primary or permanent | 2.8% | 577 | 259 | $31K |
| D2930 | Prefabricated stainless steel crown - primary tooth | 2.8% | 462 | 52 | $31K |
12 more codes
| D7140 | Extraction, erupted tooth or exposed root | 2.2% | 585 | $24K |
| D0210 | Intraoral - complete series of radiographic images | 1.3% | 446 | $14K |
| D0272 | Bitewings - two radiographic images | 1.0% | 1,137 | $11K |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | <1% | 1,244 | $9K |
| D1208 | Topical application of fluoride, excluding varnish | <1% | 531 | $4K |
| D3220 | Therapeutic pulpotomy (excluding final restoration) - removal of pulp coronal to the dentinocemental junction | <1% | 67 | $3K |
| D9310 | <1% | 69 | $1K | |
| D0340 | <1% | 48 | $1K | |
| D0470 | <1% | 24 | $624.60 | |
| D0350 | <1% | 24 | $396.15 | |
| D0145 | Oral evaluation for a patient under three years of age | <1% | 13 | $325.71 |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | <1% | 39 | $237.60 |
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.