Dental
Africa, Jo-Ann Carol
Africa, Jo-Ann Carol was paid $457K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2020, across 17 billing codes. Its largest line is D0120, dental checkup, returning patient — 16% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoAFRICA, JO-ANN CAROL
VICTORVILLE, CA 92395
VICTORVILLE, CA 92395
33aNPI1366466716assigned 07/27/2006
33bProvider typeGeneral Practice Dentistry
28Total paid$457K
24GClaims25,035
24DCodes billed17
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2020
Compared with peers
Next to other General Practice Dentistry providers in California
Rank by total paid#929 of 2,668
Median peer was paid$173K
This provider vs. median2.6×
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 | 9,949 | $185K | |
| 2019 | 10,352 | $197K | |
| 2020 | 4,734 | $75K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 16% | 1,779 | 1,771 | $72K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 11% | 882 | 875 | $51K |
| D2150 | Silver amalgam - two surfaces, primary or permanent | 11% | 754 | 460 | $50K |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | 10% | 12,016 | 2,346 | $47K |
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 10.0% | 1,537 | 1,530 | $46K |
| D7210 | Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth | 8.2% | 319 | 135 | $37K |
| D2160 | 5.4% | 311 | 218 | $25K | |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 4.9% | 1,930 | 1,751 | $22K |
| D1208 | Topical application of fluoride, excluding varnish | 4.1% | 2,038 | 2,028 | $19K |
| D0210 | Intraoral - complete series of radiographic images | 4.1% | 421 | 416 | $19K |
| D0274 | Bitewings - four radiographic images | 4.0% | 862 | 862 | $18K |
| D2140 | 2.9% | 252 | 149 | $13K |
5 more codes
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.