Dental
The Texas Children's Dental Universe
The Texas Children's Dental Universe was paid $469K by Medicaid between Nov 2020 and Dec 2024, across 16 billing codes. Its largest line is D0120, dental checkup, returning patient — 17% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTHE TEXAS CHILDREN'S DENTAL UNIVERSE
TEXAS CITY, TX 77590
TEXAS CITY, TX 77590
33aNPI1285811364assigned 01/30/2008
33bProvider typeGeneral Practice Dentistry
28Total paid$469K
24GClaims19,500
24DCodes billed16
24AFirst – last monthNov 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other General Practice Dentistry providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#545 of 2,774
Median peer was paid$43K
This provider vs. median11×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 540 | $12K | |
| 2021 | 5,894 | $144K | |
| 2022 | 4,806 | $115K | |
| 2023 | 5,104 | $126K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,156 | $71K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 17% | 2,886 | 2,856 | $81K |
| D1110 | Prophylaxis - adult | 14% | 1,218 | 1,212 | $65K |
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 13% | 1,769 | 1,751 | $63K |
| D0274 | Bitewings - four radiographic images | 12% | 1,671 | 1,662 | $56K |
| D1351 | Sealant - per tooth | 12% | 2,306 | 452 | $56K |
| D1206 | Topical application of fluoride varnish | 8.9% | 2,906 | 2,882 | $42K |
| D2391 | Resin-based composite - one surface, posterior, primary or permanent | 7.5% | 485 | 280 | $35K |
| D2392 | Resin-based composite - two surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent | 4.5% | 237 | 160 | $21K |
| D0272 | Bitewings - two radiographic images | 3.9% | 815 | 806 | $18K |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 2.2% | 850 | 828 | $10K |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | 1.8% | 836 | 595 | $9K |
| D0145 | Oral evaluation for a patient under three years of age | 1.7% | 57 | 56 | $8K |
4 more codes
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 officialDUTTON, MELONIE (OWNER)