Dental
Cruz, Carlos
Cruz, Carlos was paid $532K by Medicaid between Jan 2021 and Dec 2024, across 13 billing codes. Its largest line is D7240, Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony — 74% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCRUZ, CARLOS
EDINBURG, TX 78539
EDINBURG, TX 78539
33aNPI1639172109assigned 05/27/2005
33bProvider typeOral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)
28Total paid$532K
24GClaims4,938
24DCodes billed13
24AFirst – last monthJan 2021 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#41 of 102
Median peer was paid$338K
This provider vs. median1.6×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 352 | $29K | |
| 2022 | 451 | $38K | |
| 2023 | 3,009 | $342K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,126 | $123K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D7240 | Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony | 74% | 1,460 | 511 | $393K |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 8.2% | 815 | 794 | $44K |
| D9222 | 5.5% | 529 | 525 | $29K | |
| D9223 | Deep sedation/general anesthesia - each subsequent 15 minute increment | 3.3% | 438 | 409 | $18K |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 3.0% | 907 | 904 | $16K |
| D7140 | Extraction, erupted tooth or exposed root | 1.7% | 149 | 84 | $9K |
| D9239 | 1.3% | 131 | 131 | $7K | |
| D7230 | 1.0% | 33 | 25 | $5K | |
| D9243 | <1% | 117 | 110 | $4K | |
| D7220 | <1% | 19 | 14 | $3K | |
| D0160 | <1% | 172 | 172 | $3K | |
| D9310 | <1% | 137 | 127 | $1K |
1 more codes
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 0% | 31 | $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.