Dental
Lala, Asif
Lala, Asif was paid $761K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is D7240, Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony — 28% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLALA, ASIF
MERIDIAN, MS 39301
MERIDIAN, MS 39301
33aNPI1649425596assigned 11/19/2008
33bProvider typeOral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)
28Total paid$761K
24GClaims8,809
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jul 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) providers in Mississippi
Rank by total paid#12 of 39
Median peer was paid$319K
This provider vs. median2.4×
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 | 5,053 | $390K | |
| 2019 | 923 | $87K | |
| 2020 | 717 | $67K | |
| 2021 | 734 | $69K | |
| 2022 | 1,001 | $117K | |
| 2023 | 185 | $15K | |
| 2024incomplete | 196 | $15K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D7240 | Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony | 28% | 1,225 | 384 | $217K |
| D7210 | Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth | 24% | 1,796 | 604 | $182K |
| D9223 | Deep sedation/general anesthesia - each subsequent 15 minute increment | 19% | 2,237 | 988 | $141K |
| D9222 | 13% | 986 | 934 | $97K | |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 8.9% | 1,961 | 1,790 | $67K |
| D7230 | 4.3% | 166 | 98 | $33K | |
| D9243 | 1.9% | 280 | 80 | $14K | |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | <1% | 122 | 119 | $6K |
| D9239 | <1% | 36 | 35 | $3K |
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.