Dental
Lifetime Dental Care
Lifetime Dental Care was paid $2.36M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Apr 2022, across 21 billing codes. Its largest line is D0120, dental checkup, returning patient — 19% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLIFETIME DENTAL CARE
SANTA PAULA, CA 93060
SANTA PAULA, CA 93060
33aNPI1528271061assigned 05/08/2007
33bProvider typeGeneral Practice Dentistry
28Total paid$2.36M
24GClaims124,618
24DCodes billed21
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Apr 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other General Practice Dentistry providers in California
Rank by total paid#239 of 2,668
Median peer was paid$173K
This provider vs. median14×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 31,747 | $554K | |
| 2019 | 32,572 | $664K | |
| 2020 | 25,178 | $493K | |
| 2021 | 28,477 | $489K | |
| 2022 | 6,644 | $160K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 19% | 10,067 | 10,062 | $449K |
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 15% | 11,224 | 11,210 | $349K |
| D2150 | Silver amalgam - two surfaces, primary or permanent | 14% | 5,000 | 2,643 | $336K |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | 10% | 61,395 | 12,006 | $246K |
| D2930 | Prefabricated stainless steel crown - primary tooth | 9.1% | 1,832 | 581 | $215K |
| D2140 | 7.1% | 3,083 | 1,943 | $168K | |
| D3220 | Therapeutic pulpotomy (excluding final restoration) - removal of pulp coronal to the dentinocemental junction | 5.3% | 1,259 | 419 | $125K |
| D1208 | Topical application of fluoride, excluding varnish | 4.1% | 11,276 | 11,262 | $96K |
| D0274 | Bitewings - four radiographic images | 3.9% | 4,335 | 4,335 | $92K |
| D0272 | Bitewings - two radiographic images | 2.3% | 4,637 | 4,632 | $54K |
| D0350 | 1.8% | 4,125 | 2,481 | $41K | |
| D9248 | 1.5% | 1,002 | 1,001 | $35K |
9 more codes
| D2160 | 1.4% | 418 | $33K | |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 1.4% | 2,836 | $33K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 1.3% | 502 | $30K |
| D1351 | Sealant - per tooth | 1.1% | 1,061 | $25K |
| D2330 | <1% | 260 | $20K | |
| D1310 | <1% | 165 | $8K | |
| D7140 | Extraction, erupted tooth or exposed root | <1% | 41 | $2K |
| D0145 | Oral evaluation for a patient under three years of age | <1% | 32 | $2K |
| D0603 | <1% | 68 | $1K |
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 officialKIM, NICHOLAS (DENTIST)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Lifetime Dental Care | Oxnard, CA | $5.89M |
| Lifetime Dental Care | Oxnard, CA | $3.61M |
| Kim Youngrae Medical, INC | Buena Park, CA | $43K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.