Dental
Laga, Edward
Laga, Edward was paid $154K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jan 2020, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is D9223, Deep sedation/general anesthesia - each subsequent 15 minute increment — 64% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLAGA, EDWARD
PRESQUE ISLE, ME 04769
PRESQUE ISLE, ME 04769
33aNPI1922154095assigned 01/25/2007
33bProvider typeOral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)
28Total paid$154K
24GClaims1,624
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jan 2020
Compared with peers
Next to other Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) providers in Maine
Rank by total paid#9 of 12
Median peer was paid$921K
This provider vs. median0.2×
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 | 1,170 | $115K | |
| 2019 | 379 | $33K | |
| 2020 | 75 | $7K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D9223 | Deep sedation/general anesthesia - each subsequent 15 minute increment | 64% | 708 | 237 | $98K |
| D7210 | Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth | 12% | 177 | 52 | $19K |
| D9222 | 8.5% | 91 | 87 | $13K | |
| D7140 | Extraction, erupted tooth or exposed root | 3.8% | 81 | 12 | $6K |
| D7240 | Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony | 3.5% | 29 | 12 | $5K |
| D9230 | Inhalation of nitrous oxide / analgesia, anxiolysis | 3.2% | 273 | 258 | $5K |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 1.8% | 155 | 149 | $3K |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 1.8% | 71 | 68 | $3K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 1.3% | 39 | 38 | $2K |
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.