Dental
Palma, Michael
Palma, Michael was paid $20K by Medicaid between May 2019 and Sep 2022, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is D8670, Periodic orthodontic treatment visit — 83% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPALMA, MICHAEL
WEIRTON, WV 26062
WEIRTON, WV 26062
33aNPI1477655165assigned 09/02/2006
33bProvider typeOrthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedic Dentist
28Total paid$20K
24GClaims237
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthMay 2019 – Sep 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedic Dentist providers in West Virginia
Rank by total paid#16 of 22
Median peer was paid$171K
This provider vs. median0.1×
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 | 80 | $4K | |
| 2020 | 28 | $5K | |
| 2021 | 59 | $9K | |
| 2022 | 70 | $1K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D8670 | Periodic orthodontic treatment visit | 83% | 105 | 91 | $16K |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 6.6% | 43 | 41 | $1K |
| D0340 | 6.1% | 30 | 28 | $1K | |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 2.6% | 29 | 28 | $500.65 |
| D0350 | 1.4% | 30 | 28 | $270.82 |
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.