Dental
Christiansen, Stephen
Christiansen, Stephen was paid $2.96M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 12 billing codes. Its largest line is D7140, Extraction, erupted tooth or exposed root — 23% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHRISTIANSEN, STEPHEN
ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87114
ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87114
33aNPI1679567242assigned 09/09/2005
33bProvider typeOral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)
28Total paid$2.96M
24GClaims35,920
24DCodes billed12
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) providers in New Mexico
Rank by total paid#3 of 16
Median peer was paid$284K
This provider vs. median10×
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 | 288 | $24K | |
| 2019 | 3,303 | $246K | |
| 2020 | 3,393 | $269K | |
| 2021 | 4,295 | $341K | |
| 2022 | 8,297 | $700K | |
| 2023 | 9,044 | $739K | |
| 2024incomplete | 7,300 | $638K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D7140 | Extraction, erupted tooth or exposed root | 23% | 10,517 | 2,470 | $686K |
| D7240 | Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony | 21% | 3,113 | 1,312 | $610K |
| D7230 | 19% | 3,428 | 1,798 | $566K | |
| D9222 | 7.4% | 3,775 | 3,716 | $218K | |
| D9223 | Deep sedation/general anesthesia - each subsequent 15 minute increment | 7.4% | 3,794 | 3,696 | $218K |
| D7210 | Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth | 7.0% | 1,816 | 1,105 | $207K |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 6.2% | 6,214 | 6,157 | $184K |
| D7220 | 5.3% | 1,176 | 799 | $158K | |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 2.9% | 1,903 | 1,881 | $86K |
| D7310 | <1% | 151 | 83 | $18K | |
| D7471 | <1% | 21 | 14 | $4K | |
| D9920 | <1% | 12 | 12 | $1K |
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.