Dental
Dess, Robert
Dess, Robert was paid $2.00M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2024, across 13 billing codes. Its largest line is D1120, dental cleaning, child — 27% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDESS, ROBERT
NEW BRITAIN, CT 06051
NEW BRITAIN, CT 06051
33aNPI1598756462assigned 10/31/2005
33bProvider typeDentist
28Total paid$2.00M
24GClaims52,163
24DCodes billed13
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Dentist providers in Connecticut
Rank by total paid#6 of 153
Median peer was paid$41K
This provider vs. median48×
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 | 10,523 | $426K | |
| 2019 | 9,883 | $389K | |
| 2020 | 7,095 | $265K | |
| 2021 | 8,223 | $306K | |
| 2022 | 7,210 | $267K | |
| 2023 | 5,795 | $213K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,434 | $129K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 27% | 11,906 | 11,863 | $530K |
| D1208 | Topical application of fluoride, excluding varnish | 17% | 12,034 | 11,987 | $334K |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 16% | 9,256 | 9,224 | $312K |
| D0272 | Bitewings - two radiographic images | 9.8% | 6,383 | 6,360 | $196K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 8.1% | 2,571 | 2,555 | $161K |
| D1351 | Sealant - per tooth | 7.0% | 3,665 | 1,318 | $141K |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 5.7% | 1,377 | 1,367 | $114K |
| D2392 | Resin-based composite - two surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent | 5.2% | 959 | 487 | $103K |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 2.1% | 2,237 | 2,209 | $41K |
| D2393 | Resin-based composite - three surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent | 1.8% | 254 | 158 | $35K |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | 1.2% | 1,429 | 1,141 | $23K |
| D2391 | Resin-based composite - one surface, posterior, primary or permanent | <1% | 59 | 39 | $5K |
1 more codes
| D1354 | <1% | 33 | $444.30 |
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.