Dientes Community Dental Care.

Dientes Community Dental Care. was paid $40.94M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is 00003, Internal/system code - not a standard HCPCS code — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoDIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE.
SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065

33aNPI1437213279assigned 12/19/2006

33bProvider typeDentist

28Total paid$40.94M

24GClaims173,217

24DCodes billed1

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Dentist providers in California

Rank by total paid#3 of 2,314

Median peer was paid$185K

This provider vs. median221×

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.

Single-Code Concentration100% of spending on code 00003 with only 1 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.

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	24,526	$5.47M
2019	22,843	$5.17M
2020	18,803	$4.33M
2021	23,546	$5.51M
2022	19,772	$4.70M
2023	29,877	$7.23M
2024incomplete	33,850	$8.54M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
00003	Internal/system code - not a standard HCPCS code	100%	173,217	159,759	$40.94M

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 officialMARCUS, LAURA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)