Dental
Blume, Melinda
Blume, Melinda was paid $1.57M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is D3330, Endodontic therapy, molar tooth (excluding final restoration) — 64% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBLUME, MELINDA
FREEHOLD, NJ 07728
FREEHOLD, NJ 07728
33aNPI1609920313assigned 01/22/2007
33bProvider typeEndodontist
28Total paid$1.57M
24GClaims13,953
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Endodontist providers in New Jersey
Rank by total paid#9 of 60
Median peer was paid$91K
This provider vs. median17×
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 | 3,848 | $520K | |
| 2019 | 2,651 | $351K | |
| 2020 | 1,079 | $125K | |
| 2021 | 1,684 | $154K | |
| 2022 | 2,013 | $209K | |
| 2023 | 1,754 | $158K | |
| 2024incomplete | 924 | $51K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D3330 | Endodontic therapy, molar tooth (excluding final restoration) | 64% | 1,355 | 1,307 | $1.00M |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 12% | 3,557 | 3,471 | $181K |
| D3320 | 11% | 274 | 257 | $170K | |
| D0364 | 5.5% | 976 | 941 | $86K | |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 4.7% | 5,077 | 4,495 | $74K |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | 1.9% | 2,578 | 2,515 | $30K |
| D9920 | <1% | 93 | 90 | $8K | |
| D3310 | <1% | 14 | 12 | $7K | |
| D3331 | <1% | 29 | 27 | $6K |
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.