Dental
Melissa a Dempsey, DDS MS INC
Melissa a Dempsey, DDS MS INC was paid $5.74M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is D8670, Periodic orthodontic treatment visit — 68% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMELISSA A DEMPSEY, DDS MS INC
FRESNO, CA 93722
FRESNO, CA 93722
33aNPI1811232093assigned 11/29/2012
33bProvider typeOrthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedic Dentist
28Total paid$5.74M
24GClaims26,743
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedic Dentist providers in California
Rank by total paid#24 of 251
Median peer was paid$303K
This provider vs. median19×
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 | 5,311 | $1.05M | |
| 2019 | 4,506 | $1.07M | |
| 2020 | 3,271 | $782K | |
| 2021 | 3,566 | $801K | |
| 2022 | 3,646 | $736K | |
| 2023 | 3,495 | $708K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,948 | $600K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D8670 | Periodic orthodontic treatment visit | 68% | 13,833 | 13,791 | $3.88M |
| D8080 | Comprehensive orthodontic treatment of the adolescent dentition | 17% | 993 | 984 | $991K |
| D8680 | 8.6% | 1,494 | 743 | $492K | |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 3.5% | 5,789 | 5,749 | $199K |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 1.3% | 2,514 | 2,496 | $74K |
| D0470 | <1% | 1,104 | 1,091 | $56K | |
| D0340 | <1% | 1,003 | 994 | $50K | |
| D0350 | <1% | 13 | 13 | $124.80 |
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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialDEMPSEY, MELISSA (OWNER)