Dental
Coster, Lindiwe
Coster, Lindiwe was paid $78K by Medicaid between Apr 2019 and Dec 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is D0120, dental checkup, returning patient — 34% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCOSTER, LINDIWE
WOONSOCKET, RI 02895
WOONSOCKET, RI 02895
33aNPI1770938474assigned 04/30/2016
33bProvider typeDentist
28Total paid$78K
24GClaims3,314
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthApr 2019 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Dentist providers in Rhode Island
Rank by total paid#59 of 93
Median peer was paid$115K
This provider vs. median0.7×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 81 | $2K | |
| 2020 | 88 | $2K | |
| 2021 | 120 | $3K | |
| 2022 | 450 | $8K | |
| 2023 | 993 | $20K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,582 | $43K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 34% | 1,443 | 1,001 | $26K |
| D0274 | Bitewings - four radiographic images | 31% | 1,028 | 686 | $24K |
| D2392 | Resin-based composite - two surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent | 12% | 124 | 52 | $9K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 8.1% | 217 | 127 | $6K |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 6.6% | 230 | 142 | $5K |
| D2391 | Resin-based composite - one surface, posterior, primary or permanent | 4.3% | 61 | 29 | $3K |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 2.9% | 191 | 112 | $2K |
| D2150 | Silver amalgam - two surfaces, primary or permanent | <1% | 20 | 15 | $740.00 |
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.