Dental
Hochgesang, Melinda
Hochgesang, Melinda was paid $3K by Medicaid between Jul 2018 and Jun 2020, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is D1120, dental cleaning, child — 72% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoHOCHGESANG, MELINDA
BETTENDORF, IA 52722
BETTENDORF, IA 52722
33aNPI1598995623assigned 07/23/2009
33bProvider typeDentist
28Total paid$3K
24GClaims98
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJul 2018 – Jun 2020
Compared with peers
Next to other Dentist providers in Iowa
Rank by total paid#205 of 268
Median peer was paid$26K
This provider vs. median0.1×
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 | 19 | $501.90 | |
| 2019 | 14 | $652.47 | |
| 2020 | 65 | $2K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 72% | 64 | 54 | $2K |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 28% | 34 | 29 | $957.50 |
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.