Physician
Valantine Ferrara, Melissa
Valantine Ferrara, Melissa was paid $32K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 67% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoVALANTINE FERRARA, MELISSA
NILES, OH 44446
NILES, OH 44446
33aNPI1518940261assigned 11/28/2005
33bProvider typePediatrics Physician
28Total paid$32K
24GClaims1,235
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Pediatrics Physician providers in Ohio
Rank by total paid#197 of 401
Median peer was paid$30K
This provider vs. median1.1×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 711 | $20K | |
| 2020 | 13 | $494.61 | |
| 2022 | 65 | $2K | |
| 2023 | 388 | $8K | |
| 2024incomplete | 58 | $1K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 67% | 657 | 562 | $22K |
| 96110 | Developmental screening, with scoring and documentation, per standardized instrument | 13% | 325 | 281 | $4K |
| 90460 | Immunization administration through 18 years of age via any route, first or only component | 6.9% | 96 | 65 | $2K |
| 87880 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A | 3.7% | 78 | 74 | $1K |
| 99392 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, early childhood (1-4 years) | 3.6% | 26 | 24 | $1K |
| 99391 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, infant (under 1 year) | 3.4% | 25 | 24 | $1K |
| 99393 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, late childhood (5-11 years) | 2.3% | 14 | 14 | $740.74 |
| 90461 | 0% | 14 | 14 | $0.00 |
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.