Dental
OIG excluded
Nichols, Brantley
Nichols, Brantley was paid $608K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and May 2019, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is D7241, — 28% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoNICHOLS, BRANTLEY
RULEVILLE, MS 38771
RULEVILLE, MS 38771
33aNPI1265696769assigned 07/14/2008
33bProvider typeOral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)
28Total paid$608K
24GClaims4,828
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – May 2019
Compared with peers
Next to other Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) providers in Mississippi
Rank by total paid#14 of 39
Median peer was paid$319K
This provider vs. median1.9×
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
OIG exclusionListed on the federal exclusion list (05/19/2022).
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 | 4,741 | $602K | |
| 2019 | 87 | $5K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D7241 | 28% | 683 | 220 | $171K | |
| D7210 | Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth | 26% | 1,573 | 459 | $157K |
| D7240 | Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony | 20% | 589 | 242 | $121K |
| D7230 | 9.1% | 310 | 162 | $56K | |
| D7250 | 4.7% | 291 | 85 | $29K | |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 4.7% | 795 | 724 | $29K |
| D7220 | 3.8% | 197 | 104 | $23K | |
| D7311 | 2.5% | 223 | 119 | $15K | |
| D9310 | 1.0% | 140 | 133 | $6K | |
| D9222 | <1% | 13 | 13 | $1K | |
| D9223 | Deep sedation/general anesthesia - each subsequent 15 minute increment | <1% | 14 | 13 | $115.00 |
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.