Clinic
Escondido Valley Braces
Escondido Valley Braces was paid $487K by Medicaid between Jul 2019 and Oct 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is D8670, Periodic orthodontic treatment visit — 88% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoESCONDIDO VALLEY BRACES
ESCONDIDO, CA 92025
ESCONDIDO, CA 92025
33aNPI1245702273assigned 01/02/2019
33bProvider typeDental Clinic/Center
28Total paid$487K
24GClaims2,857
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJul 2019 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Dental Clinic/Center providers in California
Rank by total paid#387 of 1,135
Median peer was paid$200K
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 140 | $5K | |
| 2020 | 799 | $88K | |
| 2021 | 931 | $137K | |
| 2022 | 437 | $111K | |
| 2023 | 374 | $94K | |
| 2024incomplete | 176 | $51K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D8670 | Periodic orthodontic treatment visit | 88% | 1,493 | 1,487 | $429K |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 4.7% | 650 | 648 | $23K |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 4.1% | 662 | 662 | $20K |
| D8080 | Comprehensive orthodontic treatment of the adolescent dentition | 2.7% | 13 | 13 | $13K |
| D0470 | <1% | 13 | 13 | $937.50 | |
| D0340 | <1% | 13 | 13 | $625.00 | |
| D0210 | Intraoral - complete series of radiographic images | <1% | 13 | 13 | $600.00 |
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 officialLUTHER, MICHAEL (OWNER)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Luther DDS INC | Temecula, CA | $764K |
| Michael L Luther D.D.S INC | Moreno Valley, CA | $249K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.