Dental
Chockalingam, Chandra
Chockalingam, Chandra was paid $204K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2023, across 14 billing codes. Its largest line is D0120, dental checkup, returning patient — 17% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHOCKALINGAM, CHANDRA
HIGHLAND, CA 92346
HIGHLAND, CA 92346
33aNPI1568582534assigned 03/30/2007
33bProvider typeGeneral Practice Dentistry
28Total paid$204K
24GClaims13,499
24DCodes billed14
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other General Practice Dentistry providers in California
Rank by total paid#1,279 of 2,668
Median peer was paid$173K
This provider vs. median1.2×
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 | 3,788 | $47K | |
| 2019 | 3,472 | $56K | |
| 2020 | 1,109 | $14K | |
| 2021 | 1,836 | $27K | |
| 2022 | 3,093 | $57K | |
| 2023 | 201 | $2K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 17% | 779 | 771 | $34K |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | 16% | 7,698 | 1,795 | $33K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 14% | 473 | 472 | $28K |
| D1110 | Prophylaxis - adult | 13% | 319 | 318 | $27K |
| D9430 | 9.4% | 617 | 562 | $19K | |
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 8.1% | 521 | 513 | $17K |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 7.2% | 1,271 | 1,157 | $15K |
| D1208 | Topical application of fluoride, excluding varnish | 7.0% | 1,167 | 1,157 | $14K |
| D0274 | Bitewings - four radiographic images | 2.2% | 233 | 228 | $4K |
| D4341 | 2.1% | 91 | 24 | $4K | |
| D1351 | Sealant - per tooth | 1.5% | 121 | 27 | $3K |
| D9110 | 1.4% | 46 | 43 | $3K |
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.