Dental
Ragas, Paul
Ragas, Paul was paid $269K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is D7140, Extraction, erupted tooth or exposed root — 37% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoRAGAS, PAUL
MARRERO, LA 70072
MARRERO, LA 70072
33aNPI1750591277assigned 05/23/2007
33bProvider typeGeneral Practice Dentistry
28Total paid$269K
24GClaims5,199
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other General Practice Dentistry providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#121 of 412
Median peer was paid$83K
This provider vs. median3.2×
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 | 250 | $12K | |
| 2019 | 648 | $39K | |
| 2020 | 1,099 | $57K | |
| 2021 | 1,097 | $58K | |
| 2022 | 732 | $38K | |
| 2023 | 806 | $35K | |
| 2024incomplete | 567 | $30K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D7140 | Extraction, erupted tooth or exposed root | 37% | 1,459 | 502 | $98K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 24% | 1,441 | 1,286 | $64K |
| D0210 | Intraoral - complete series of radiographic images | 23% | 1,112 | 997 | $63K |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 9.3% | 602 | 587 | $25K |
| D7210 | Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth | 3.7% | 80 | 54 | $10K |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 2.1% | 232 | 206 | $6K |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 1.1% | 223 | 218 | $3K |
| D1110 | Prophylaxis - adult | <1% | 12 | 12 | $524.51 |
| D1208 | Topical application of fluoride, excluding varnish | <1% | 13 | 13 | $237.24 |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | <1% | 25 | 15 | $147.90 |
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.