Dental
Almerico, Ben
Almerico, Ben was paid $177K by Medicaid between Feb 2019 and Oct 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is D7240, Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony — 44% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoALMERICO, BEN
COVINGTON, LA 70433
COVINGTON, LA 70433
33aNPI1275578460assigned 06/19/2006
33bProvider typeOral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)
28Total paid$177K
24GClaims1,603
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2019 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#15 of 26
Median peer was paid$187K
This provider vs. median0.9×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 131 | $8K | |
| 2020 | 430 | $40K | |
| 2021 | 124 | $8K | |
| 2022 | 55 | $3K | |
| 2023 | 308 | $31K | |
| 2024incomplete | 555 | $87K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D7240 | Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony | 44% | 277 | 85 | $78K |
| D9243 | 19% | 415 | 212 | $33K | |
| D9239 | 15% | 224 | 212 | $26K | |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 11% | 308 | 305 | $20K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 11% | 379 | 375 | $20K |
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.