Dental
Tarsitano, Ben
Tarsitano, Ben was paid $4.61M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 14 billing codes. Its largest line is D7240, Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony — 42% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTARSITANO, BEN
WATSONVILLE, CA 95076
WATSONVILLE, CA 95076
33aNPI1558416065assigned 01/24/2007
33bProvider typeOral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)
28Total paid$4.61M
24GClaims30,053
24DCodes billed14
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) providers in California
Rank by total paid#10 of 94
Median peer was paid$192K
This provider vs. median24×
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 | 4,546 | $604K | |
| 2019 | 4,946 | $801K | |
| 2020 | 3,292 | $512K | |
| 2021 | 4,295 | $664K | |
| 2022 | 4,501 | $730K | |
| 2023 | 4,463 | $713K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,010 | $588K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D7240 | Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony | 42% | 8,683 | 3,114 | $1.94M |
| D9223 | Deep sedation/general anesthesia - each subsequent 15 minute increment | 16% | 3,554 | 2,268 | $716K |
| D7230 | 7.6% | 1,915 | 1,057 | $351K | |
| D7210 | Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth | 6.5% | 2,617 | 1,420 | $300K |
| D9220 | 6.5% | 1,403 | 1,394 | $300K | |
| D9221 | 6.2% | 1,894 | 1,396 | $287K | |
| D9222 | 5.9% | 2,303 | 2,267 | $274K | |
| 70486 | 2.4% | 1,041 | 1,038 | $112K | |
| 99204 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity | 2.1% | 579 | 579 | $95K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | 1.9% | 454 | 454 | $88K |
| D9610 | 1.5% | 3,257 | 3,229 | $68K | |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 1.1% | 1,769 | 1,751 | $51K |
2 more codes
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.