Dental
Las Cruces Smiles
Las Cruces Smiles was paid $460K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is D8080, Comprehensive orthodontic treatment of the adolescent dentition — 64% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLAS CRUCES SMILES
LAS CRUCES, NM 88011
LAS CRUCES, NM 88011
33aNPI1558746099assigned 07/27/2015
33bProvider typeOrthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedic Dentist
28Total paid$460K
24GClaims1,688
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedic Dentist providers in New Mexico
Rank by total paid#6 of 30
Median peer was paid$48K
This provider vs. median9.5×
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 | 309 | $270K | |
| 2019 | 289 | $30K | |
| 2020 | 236 | $25K | |
| 2021 | 277 | $75K | |
| 2022 | 279 | $29K | |
| 2023 | 147 | $16K | |
| 2024incomplete | 151 | $16K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D8080 | Comprehensive orthodontic treatment of the adolescent dentition | 64% | 80 | 80 | $293K |
| D8660 | 36% | 1,608 | 1,608 | $167K |
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 officialCOOMBS, KEITH (ORTHODONTIST/OWNER)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Orthodontics LC3, LLC | Las Cruces, NM | $12K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.