Dental
Braces By DR. Ruth PLLC
Braces By DR. Ruth PLLC was paid $1.04M by Medicaid between Jul 2019 and Dec 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is D8670, Periodic orthodontic treatment visit — 77% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBRACES BY DR. RUTH PLLC
NASHVILLE, TN 37203
NASHVILLE, TN 37203
33aNPI1245492297assigned 07/01/2008
33bProvider typeOrthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedic Dentist
28Total paid$1.04M
24GClaims13,062
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJul 2019 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedic Dentist providers in Tennessee
Rank by total paid#15 of 79
Median peer was paid$240K
This provider vs. median4.3×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1,059 | $96K | |
| 2020 | 2,129 | $187K | |
| 2021 | 3,021 | $157K | |
| 2022 | 2,550 | $214K | |
| 2023 | 2,333 | $212K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,970 | $177K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D8670 | Periodic orthodontic treatment visit | 77% | 10,618 | 9,202 | $799K |
| D8080 | Comprehensive orthodontic treatment of the adolescent dentition | 12% | 115 | 114 | $126K |
| D8660 | 8.2% | 2,211 | 1,987 | $86K | |
| D8680 | 3.1% | 118 | 113 | $32K |
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 officialROSS, RUTH (OWNER)