Dental
Puffer, Craig
Puffer, Craig was paid $125K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jun 2021, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is D1120, dental cleaning, child — 20% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPUFFER, CRAIG
TIPTON, IA 52772
TIPTON, IA 52772
33aNPI1245307339assigned 11/30/2006
33bProvider typeGeneral Practice Dentistry
28Total paid$125K
24GClaims6,882
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jun 2021
Compared with peers
Next to other General Practice Dentistry providers in Iowa
Rank by total paid#96 of 437
Median peer was paid$22K
This provider vs. median5.7×
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 | 2,088 | $37K | |
| 2019 | 1,873 | $35K | |
| 2020 | 2,290 | $42K | |
| 2021 | 631 | $11K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 20% | 1,030 | 977 | $25K |
| D1351 | Sealant - per tooth | 18% | 1,307 | 196 | $22K |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 18% | 1,379 | 1,295 | $22K |
| D0274 | Bitewings - four radiographic images | 14% | 756 | 704 | $17K |
| D1206 | Topical application of fluoride varnish | 13% | 1,150 | 1,090 | $16K |
| D1110 | Prophylaxis - adult | 9.6% | 390 | 355 | $12K |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 3.2% | 415 | 384 | $4K |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | 1.7% | 240 | 185 | $2K |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 1.6% | 55 | 50 | $2K |
| D1208 | Topical application of fluoride, excluding varnish | 1.2% | 109 | 96 | $1K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | <1% | 51 | 49 | $1K |
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.