Dental
Dowdy, Ernest
Dowdy, Ernest was paid $533K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is D1110, Prophylaxis - adult — 26% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDOWDY, ERNEST
COLUMBIA, SC 29203
COLUMBIA, SC 29203
33aNPI1649360926assigned 10/15/2006
33bProvider typeGeneral Practice Dentistry
28Total paid$533K
24GClaims20,612
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other General Practice Dentistry providers in South Carolina
Rank by total paid#71 of 331
Median peer was paid$75K
This provider vs. median7.1×
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 | 3,291 | $85K | |
| 2019 | 3,332 | $85K | |
| 2020 | 2,334 | $62K | |
| 2021 | 2,991 | $78K | |
| 2022 | 3,275 | $82K | |
| 2023 | 3,052 | $78K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,337 | $63K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1110 | Prophylaxis - adult | 26% | 2,786 | 2,779 | $138K |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 18% | 4,283 | 4,273 | $97K |
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 14% | 2,079 | 2,075 | $73K |
| D0272 | Bitewings - two radiographic images | 13% | 3,814 | 3,806 | $71K |
| D1208 | Topical application of fluoride, excluding varnish | 11% | 3,502 | 3,495 | $57K |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 10% | 1,189 | 1,181 | $54K |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 5.3% | 2,513 | 2,274 | $28K |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 2.2% | 312 | 310 | $12K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | <1% | 67 | 67 | $3K |
| D2150 | Silver amalgam - two surfaces, primary or permanent | <1% | 15 | 12 | $1K |
| D0240 | <1% | 52 | 52 | $984.88 |
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.