Clinic
Desert Southwest Oral and Facial Surgery
Desert Southwest Oral and Facial Surgery was paid $852K by Medicaid between Nov 2022 and Dec 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is D7240, Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony — 40% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDESERT SOUTHWEST ORAL AND FACIAL SURGERY
CORTEZ, CO 81321
CORTEZ, CO 81321
33aNPI1376299131assigned 03/01/2022
33bProvider typeDental Clinic/Center
28Total paid$852K
24GClaims7,059
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthNov 2022 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Dental Clinic/Center providers in Colorado
Rank by total paid#53 of 193
Median peer was paid$180K
This provider vs. median4.7×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 45 | $2K | |
| 2023 | 3,133 | $380K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,881 | $470K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D7240 | Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony | 40% | 1,392 | 505 | $343K |
| D7140 | Extraction, erupted tooth or exposed root | 18% | 1,751 | 512 | $157K |
| D7210 | Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth | 13% | 790 | 296 | $110K |
| D9243 | 11% | 769 | 622 | $96K | |
| D9239 | 7.9% | 634 | 620 | $68K | |
| D9310 | 4.1% | 884 | 873 | $35K | |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 2.1% | 353 | 348 | $17K |
| D7220 | 1.5% | 80 | 56 | $13K | |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 1.3% | 391 | 377 | $11K |
| D9230 | Inhalation of nitrous oxide / analgesia, anxiolysis | <1% | 15 | 15 | $480.00 |
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 officialSIKES, JUSTIN (OWNER)