Dental
Wages, Melissa
Wages, Melissa was paid $105K by Medicaid between Mar 2019 and Dec 2024, across 22 billing codes. Its largest line is D1120, dental cleaning, child — 27% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoWAGES, MELISSA
PORTLAND, OR 97239
PORTLAND, OR 97239
33aNPI1316034747assigned 10/06/2006
33bProvider typeGeneral Practice Dentistry
28Total paid$105K
24GClaims20,980
24DCodes billed22
24AFirst – last monthMar 2019 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other General Practice Dentistry providers in Oregon
Rank by total paid#68 of 311
Median peer was paid$6K
This provider vs. median16×
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 | 210 | $5K | |
| 2020 | 198 | $3K | |
| 2021 | 549 | $14K | |
| 2022 | 5,309 | $21K | |
| 2023 | 6,726 | $35K | |
| 2024incomplete | 7,988 | $27K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 27% | 1,221 | 1,193 | $29K |
| D1206 | Topical application of fluoride varnish | 16% | 2,349 | 2,220 | $17K |
| D2392 | Resin-based composite - two surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent | 13% | 507 | 295 | $14K |
| D2930 | Prefabricated stainless steel crown - primary tooth | 7.4% | 85 | 25 | $8K |
| D9310 | 7.3% | 991 | 937 | $8K | |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 6.3% | 320 | 319 | $7K |
| D1354 | 4.4% | 11,000 | 1,472 | $5K | |
| D7140 | Extraction, erupted tooth or exposed root | 4.3% | 91 | 50 | $4K |
| D1351 | Sealant - per tooth | 3.2% | 355 | 126 | $3K |
| D9230 | Inhalation of nitrous oxide / analgesia, anxiolysis | 2.9% | 695 | 650 | $3K |
| D0272 | Bitewings - two radiographic images | 1.6% | 334 | 321 | $2K |
| D3220 | Therapeutic pulpotomy (excluding final restoration) - removal of pulp coronal to the dentinocemental junction | 1.3% | 25 | 12 | $1K |
10 more codes
| D0603 | 1.2% | 687 | $1K | |
| D1330 | <1% | 960 | $920.00 | |
| D9920 | <1% | 345 | $770.00 | |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | <1% | 14 | $420.00 |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | <1% | 65 | $364.00 |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | <1% | 45 | $351.00 |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | <1% | 33 | $207.00 |
| D1999 | <1% | 76 | $203.00 | |
| D0240 | <1% | 53 | $128.00 | |
| D1310 | <1% | 729 | $10.00 |
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.