Dental
Cardenas Dental Implants and Oral Surgery
Cardenas Dental Implants and Oral Surgery was paid $798K by Medicaid between Jun 2021 and Dec 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is D7240, Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony — 61% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCARDENAS DENTAL IMPLANTS AND ORAL SURGERY
HARLINGEN, TX 78550
HARLINGEN, TX 78550
33aNPI1134613441assigned 06/20/2018
33bProvider typeOral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)
28Total paid$798K
24GClaims8,854
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJun 2021 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#30 of 102
Median peer was paid$338K
This provider vs. median2.4×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 951 | $64K | |
| 2022 | 2,871 | $273K | |
| 2023 | 2,813 | $268K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,219 | $193K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D7240 | Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony | 61% | 1,779 | 632 | $486K |
| D9223 | Deep sedation/general anesthesia - each subsequent 15 minute increment | 10% | 2,099 | 971 | $84K |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 7.8% | 1,060 | 1,029 | $62K |
| D9222 | 7.2% | 1,021 | 984 | $57K | |
| D7230 | 4.9% | 233 | 121 | $39K | |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 4.6% | 1,875 | 1,830 | $37K |
| D9612 | 2.4% | 568 | 538 | $19K | |
| D7210 | Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth | 1.1% | 80 | 40 | $9K |
| D7220 | <1% | 20 | 13 | $3K | |
| D0170 | <1% | 74 | 68 | $1K | |
| D9610 | <1% | 45 | 44 | $771.46 |
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 officialCARDENAS, OMEL (MANAGER/PRESIDENT)