Dental
Rivera, Arminda
Rivera, Arminda was paid $231K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2023, across 16 billing codes. Its largest line is D1351, Sealant - per tooth — 16% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoRIVERA, ARMINDA
VEGA BAJA, PR 00694
VEGA BAJA, PR 00694
33aNPI1578697116assigned 03/15/2007
33bProvider typePediatric Dentist
28Total paid$231K
24GClaims14,868
24DCodes billed16
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Pediatric Dentist providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#21 of 52
Median peer was paid$121K
This provider vs. median1.9×
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 | 2,780 | $36K | |
| 2019 | 3,719 | $49K | |
| 2020 | 521 | $7K | |
| 2021 | 1,803 | $29K | |
| 2022 | 5,892 | $108K | |
| 2023 | 153 | $2K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1351 | Sealant - per tooth | 16% | 2,621 | 384 | $37K |
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 13% | 1,714 | 1,505 | $30K |
| D1208 | Topical application of fluoride, excluding varnish | 13% | 2,134 | 1,884 | $29K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 11% | 1,366 | 1,186 | $26K |
| D1999 | 9.9% | 1,632 | 1,432 | $23K | |
| D7140 | Extraction, erupted tooth or exposed root | 7.2% | 432 | 270 | $17K |
| D3220 | Therapeutic pulpotomy (excluding final restoration) - removal of pulp coronal to the dentinocemental junction | 5.4% | 311 | 171 | $12K |
| D0272 | Bitewings - two radiographic images | 4.8% | 815 | 737 | $11K |
| D2150 | Silver amalgam - two surfaces, primary or permanent | 4.7% | 307 | 171 | $11K |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 4.0% | 697 | 631 | $9K |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | 3.4% | 1,465 | 1,019 | $8K |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 2.6% | 942 | 797 | $6K |
4 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.