Dental
Patel, Praful
Patel, Praful was paid $32K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is D0230, Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image — 37% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPATEL, PRAFUL
SOUTH GATE, CA 90280
SOUTH GATE, CA 90280
33aNPI1699822718assigned 01/03/2007
33bProvider typeGeneral Practice Dentistry
28Total paid$32K
24GClaims2,126
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other General Practice Dentistry providers in California
Rank by total paid#1,914 of 2,668
Median peer was paid$173K
This provider vs. median0.2×
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 | 175 | $2K | |
| 2019 | 386 | $6K | |
| 2020 | 195 | $2K | |
| 2021 | 176 | $2K | |
| 2022 | 261 | $3K | |
| 2023 | 462 | $10K | |
| 2024incomplete | 471 | $7K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | 37% | 1,575 | 959 | $12K |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 22% | 129 | 129 | $7K |
| D0274 | Bitewings - four radiographic images | 12% | 189 | 189 | $4K |
| D9430 | 12% | 115 | 112 | $4K | |
| D1110 | Prophylaxis - adult | 11% | 43 | 43 | $4K |
| D0350 | 3.1% | 63 | 53 | $988.80 | |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 2.5% | 12 | 12 | $792.00 |
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.