Dental
Lucero, Martha
Lucero, Martha was paid $1.18M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 19 billing codes. Its largest line is D0120, dental checkup, returning patient — 19% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLUCERO, MARTHA
GARDEN GROVE, CA 92840
GARDEN GROVE, CA 92840
33aNPI1861655417assigned 07/03/2008
33bProvider typeDentist
28Total paid$1.18M
24GClaims28,435
24DCodes billed19
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Dentist providers in California
Rank by total paid#435 of 2,314
Median peer was paid$185K
This provider vs. median6.3×
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 | 5,344 | $152K | |
| 2019 | 4,137 | $142K | |
| 2020 | 3,071 | $95K | |
| 2021 | 3,955 | $137K | |
| 2022 | 2,792 | $125K | |
| 2023 | 4,469 | $188K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,667 | $337K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 19% | 4,152 | 4,135 | $220K |
| D2751 | Crown - porcelain fused to predominantly base metal | 14% | 345 | 241 | $164K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 13% | 2,517 | 2,505 | $156K |
| D0210 | Intraoral - complete series of radiographic images | 11% | 3,035 | 3,020 | $134K |
| D2392 | Resin-based composite - two surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent | 10% | 1,856 | 1,234 | $122K |
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 10.0% | 3,254 | 3,228 | $118K |
| D1206 | Topical application of fluoride varnish | 4.9% | 4,850 | 4,830 | $58K |
| D2391 | Resin-based composite - one surface, posterior, primary or permanent | 3.9% | 840 | 552 | $45K |
| D4341 | 3.2% | 536 | 150 | $38K | |
| D1110 | Prophylaxis - adult | 2.5% | 361 | 360 | $29K |
| D0274 | Bitewings - four radiographic images | 1.6% | 1,038 | 1,032 | $19K |
| D7210 | Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth | 1.5% | 154 | 106 | $18K |
7 more codes
| D9430 | 1.4% | 536 | $16K | |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | 1.1% | 3,214 | $13K |
| D2954 | <1% | 95 | $10K | |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | <1% | 664 | $8K |
| D2393 | Resin-based composite - three surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent | <1% | 71 | $6K |
| D0350 | <1% | 809 | $4K | |
| D1999 | <1% | 108 | $20.00 |
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.