Dental
Merlo, Barbara
Merlo, Barbara was paid $123K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 12 billing codes. Its largest line is D1120, dental cleaning, child — 25% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMERLO, BARBARA
MUNSTER, IN 46321
MUNSTER, IN 46321
33aNPI1598715724assigned 05/10/2006
33bProvider typePediatric Dentist
28Total paid$123K
24GClaims6,063
24DCodes billed12
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Pediatric Dentist providers in Indiana
Rank by total paid#95 of 155
Median peer was paid$414K
This provider vs. median0.3×
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 | 850 | $2K | |
| 2019 | 1,213 | $28K | |
| 2020 | 727 | $16K | |
| 2021 | 889 | $21K | |
| 2022 | 953 | $21K | |
| 2023 | 787 | $18K | |
| 2024incomplete | 644 | $18K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 25% | 1,121 | 1,061 | $31K |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 22% | 1,502 | 1,418 | $27K |
| D1206 | Topical application of fluoride varnish | 22% | 1,436 | 1,364 | $27K |
| D9230 | Inhalation of nitrous oxide / analgesia, anxiolysis | 19% | 1,027 | 894 | $24K |
| D9920 | 3.9% | 163 | 127 | $5K | |
| D0272 | Bitewings - two radiographic images | 3.1% | 177 | 170 | $4K |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 1.7% | 307 | 272 | $2K |
| D1110 | Prophylaxis - adult | 1.3% | 34 | 32 | $2K |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | <1% | 180 | 100 | $1K |
| D0274 | Bitewings - four radiographic images | <1% | 13 | 13 | $386.17 |
| D1208 | Topical application of fluoride, excluding varnish | <1% | 79 | 72 | $44.78 |
| D2150 | Silver amalgam - two surfaces, primary or permanent | 0% | 24 | 12 | $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.