Dental
Buchanan, James
Buchanan, James was paid $212K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2021, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is D9223, Deep sedation/general anesthesia - each subsequent 15 minute increment — 45% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBUCHANAN, JAMES
LELAND, NC 28451
LELAND, NC 28451
33aNPI1518993740assigned 06/22/2006
33bProvider typeOral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)
28Total paid$212K
24GClaims3,642
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jul 2021
Compared with peers
Next to other Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#39 of 67
Median peer was paid$407K
This provider vs. median0.5×
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 | 1,515 | $91K | |
| 2019 | 856 | $46K | |
| 2020 | 514 | $25K | |
| 2021 | 757 | $50K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D9223 | Deep sedation/general anesthesia - each subsequent 15 minute increment | 45% | 1,471 | 534 | $96K |
| D7210 | Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth | 16% | 352 | 122 | $34K |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 11% | 709 | 660 | $23K |
| D9222 | 5.0% | 140 | 138 | $11K | |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 4.9% | 225 | 218 | $10K |
| D7230 | 4.5% | 60 | 24 | $9K | |
| D9230 | Inhalation of nitrous oxide / analgesia, anxiolysis | 4.4% | 205 | 197 | $9K |
| D9610 | 3.1% | 207 | 197 | $7K | |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 2.9% | 242 | 224 | $6K |
| D7240 | Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony | 2.7% | 31 | 13 | $6K |
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.