Gariga, Nirupa

Gariga, Nirupa was paid $196K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2020, across 14 billing codes. Its largest line is D0120, dental checkup, returning patient — 19% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoGARIGA, NIRUPA
KIRKSVILLE, MO 63501

33aNPI1174907323assigned 07/17/2015

33bProvider typeDentist

28Total paid$196K

24GClaims6,755

24DCodes billed14

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2020

Compared with peers

Next to other Dentist providers in Missouri

Rank by total paid#113 of 284

Median peer was paid$109K

This provider vs. median1.8×

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	4,682	$131K
2019	1,776	$57K
2020	297	$8K

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%	1,475	1,032	$38K
D1110	Prophylaxis - adult	18%	747	516	$35K
D0272	Bitewings - two radiographic images	14%	1,143	801	$27K
D2150	Silver amalgam - two surfaces, primary or permanent	13%	329	157	$26K
D1120	Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child	10%	584	405	$21K
D1206	Topical application of fluoride varnish	8.8%	886	694	$17K
D2140		6.7%	203	87	$13K
D1208	Topical application of fluoride, excluding varnish	4.7%	478	269	$9K
D9230	Inhalation of nitrous oxide / analgesia, anxiolysis	2.3%	175	128	$4K
D0603		1.2%	489	279	$2K
D0240		<1%	59	17	$1K
D0602		<1%	140	72	$680.00

2 more codes

D0140	Limited oral evaluation - problem focused	<1%	18	$614.60
D0220	Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image	<1%	29	$504.90

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.