Dental
Darling Smiles Pediatric Dentistry, LLC
Darling Smiles Pediatric Dentistry, LLC was paid $14K by Medicaid between Jan 2022 and Nov 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is D1120, dental cleaning, child — 48% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDARLING SMILES PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY, LLC
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX 78130
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX 78130
33aNPI1013515683assigned 10/15/2020
33bProvider typePediatric Dentist
28Total paid$14K
24GClaims800
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJan 2022 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Pediatric Dentist providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#567 of 693
Median peer was paid$252K
This provider vs. median0.1×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 223 | $3K | |
| 2023 | 307 | $4K | |
| 2024incomplete | 270 | $6K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 48% | 220 | 203 | $7K |
| D1206 | Topical application of fluoride varnish | 19% | 222 | 203 | $3K |
| D0145 | Oral evaluation for a patient under three years of age | 13% | 13 | 13 | $2K |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 9.3% | 46 | 45 | $1K |
| D0272 | Bitewings - two radiographic images | 4.4% | 34 | 27 | $607.88 |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | 3.1% | 43 | 30 | $425.87 |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 2.7% | 38 | 31 | $376.80 |
| D0603 | 0% | 115 | 106 | $0.00 | |
| D0602 | 0% | 27 | 26 | $0.00 | |
| D0601 | 0% | 42 | 37 | $0.00 |
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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialMATTHES, LELA (PEDIATRIC DENTIST)