Dental
Cherkez, Pauline
Cherkez, Pauline was paid $9K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is D0120, dental checkup, returning patient — 48% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHERKEZ, PAULINE
HACKENSACK, NJ 07601
HACKENSACK, NJ 07601
33aNPI1396952552assigned 05/17/2007
33bProvider typeDentist
28Total paid$9K
24GClaims601
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Dentist providers in New Jersey
Rank by total paid#452 of 674
Median peer was paid$27K
This provider vs. median0.3×
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 | 385 | $3K | |
| 2019 | 25 | $540.00 | |
| 2020 | 27 | $583.20 | |
| 2021 | 12 | $259.20 | |
| 2022 | 40 | $820.80 | |
| 2023 | 12 | $237.60 | |
| 2024incomplete | 100 | $3K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 48% | 273 | 273 | $4K |
| D1110 | Prophylaxis - adult | 42% | 199 | 199 | $4K |
| D1208 | Topical application of fluoride, excluding varnish | 7.1% | 25 | 25 | $625.00 |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 1.4% | 63 | 63 | $121.80 |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | 1.0% | 41 | 41 | $91.00 |
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.