Lucero, Charles

Lucero, Charles was paid $933K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 21 billing codes. Its largest line is D1120, dental cleaning, child — 15% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoLUCERO, CHARLES
KINGMAN, AZ 86401

33aNPI1710988787assigned 08/02/2005

33bProvider typeGeneral Practice Dentistry

28Total paid$933K

24GClaims34,881

24DCodes billed21

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other General Practice Dentistry providers in Arizona

Rank by total paid#22 of 530

Median peer was paid$920.17

This provider vs. median1,014×

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	12,894	$302K
2019	14,039	$385K
2020	3,911	$126K
2021	622	$12K
2022	1,064	$25K
2023	1,319	$44K
2024incomplete	1,032	$38K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
D1120	Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child	15%	4,366	4,270	$143K
D0120	Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient	12%	4,837	4,747	$108K
D2391	Resin-based composite - one surface, posterior, primary or permanent	11%	1,692	809	$99K
D1208	Topical application of fluoride, excluding varnish	9.8%	5,951	5,826	$91K
D1351	Sealant - per tooth	7.8%	3,471	885	$73K
D1110	Prophylaxis - adult	7.1%	1,706	1,677	$66K
D2392	Resin-based composite - two surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent	6.8%	850	506	$63K
D0330	Panoramic radiographic image	6.5%	1,202	1,177	$60K
D0140	Limited oral evaluation - problem focused	6.0%	1,732	1,688	$56K
D7140	Extraction, erupted tooth or exposed root	4.6%	604	326	$43K
D0274	Bitewings - four radiographic images	3.6%	1,718	1,676	$34K
D0220	Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image	2.9%	2,364	2,299	$27K

9 more codes

D0272	Bitewings - two radiographic images	2.7%	1,757	$25K
D0150	Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient	2.6%	899	$24K
D9230	Inhalation of nitrous oxide / analgesia, anxiolysis	<1%	336	$6K
D0230	Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image	<1%	499	$5K
D7210	Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth	<1%	38	$4K
D0270		<1%	327	$3K
D0240		<1%	223	$3K
D0145	Oral evaluation for a patient under three years of age	<1%	12	$296.63
D0210	Intraoral - complete series of radiographic images	<1%	297	$69.58

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.