Dental
Kittle, Christopher
Kittle, Christopher was paid $265K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jun 2020, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is D7240, Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony — 36% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoKITTLE, CHRISTOPHER
FORT POLK, LA 71459
FORT POLK, LA 71459
33aNPI1437343829assigned 08/29/2007
33bProvider typeOral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)
28Total paid$265K
24GClaims1,807
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jun 2020
Compared with peers
Next to other Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#13 of 26
Median peer was paid$187K
This provider vs. median1.4×
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 | 711 | $100K | |
| 2019 | 978 | $152K | |
| 2020 | 118 | $13K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D7240 | Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony | 36% | 353 | 162 | $96K |
| D9223 | Deep sedation/general anesthesia - each subsequent 15 minute increment | 23% | 541 | 503 | $60K |
| D9222 | 20% | 488 | 485 | $54K | |
| D7210 | Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth | 16% | 233 | 104 | $42K |
| D9310 | 4.5% | 178 | 178 | $12K | |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | <1% | 14 | 13 | $815.00 |
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.