Dental
Mendoza, Ricardo
Mendoza, Ricardo was paid $2.26M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 22 billing codes. Its largest line is D1120, dental cleaning, child — 24% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMENDOZA, RICARDO
CHICAGO, IL 60647
CHICAGO, IL 60647
33aNPI1568525582assigned 12/19/2006
33bProvider typePediatric Dentist
28Total paid$2.26M
24GClaims70,263
24DCodes billed22
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Pediatric Dentist providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#6 of 53
Median peer was paid$99K
This provider vs. median23×
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 | 7,567 | $240K | |
| 2019 | 8,866 | $284K | |
| 2020 | 9,649 | $249K | |
| 2021 | 11,383 | $335K | |
| 2022 | 11,644 | $381K | |
| 2023 | 11,044 | $417K | |
| 2024incomplete | 10,110 | $360K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 24% | 13,364 | 12,440 | $544K |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 16% | 12,829 | 11,922 | $358K |
| D1208 | Topical application of fluoride, excluding varnish | 15% | 13,262 | 12,343 | $343K |
| D2392 | Resin-based composite - two surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent | 9.6% | 3,145 | 2,223 | $217K |
| D9230 | Inhalation of nitrous oxide / analgesia, anxiolysis | 7.4% | 4,064 | 3,674 | $169K |
| D1351 | Sealant - per tooth | 6.6% | 2,478 | 1,242 | $149K |
| D2930 | Prefabricated stainless steel crown - primary tooth | 5.4% | 982 | 762 | $122K |
| D7140 | Extraction, erupted tooth or exposed root | 5.0% | 1,945 | 1,487 | $114K |
| D0272 | Bitewings - two radiographic images | 3.1% | 6,943 | 6,471 | $69K |
| D2391 | Resin-based composite - one surface, posterior, primary or permanent | 2.4% | 1,253 | 969 | $54K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 1.8% | 1,761 | 1,702 | $41K |
| D9110 | 1.2% | 511 | 494 | $28K |
10 more codes
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | <1% | 2,817 | $17K |
| D2393 | Resin-based composite - three surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent | <1% | 209 | $13K |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | <1% | 1,179 | $10K |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | <1% | 425 | $7K |
| D2332 | <1% | 58 | $5K | |
| D3220 | Therapeutic pulpotomy (excluding final restoration) - removal of pulp coronal to the dentinocemental junction | <1% | 22 | $2K |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | <1% | 60 | $2K |
| D0274 | Bitewings - four radiographic images | <1% | 77 | $2K |
| D9996 | <1% | 17 | $64.68 | |
| D1999 | 0% | 2,862 | $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.