Dental
Sahara Dental Center
Sahara Dental Center was paid $260K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2021, across 15 billing codes. Its largest line is D7210, Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth — 23% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSAHARA DENTAL CENTER
BROOKLINE, MA 02446
BROOKLINE, MA 02446
33aNPI1720461189assigned 07/02/2015
33bProvider typeGeneral Practice Dentistry
28Total paid$260K
24GClaims8,480
24DCodes billed15
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2021
Compared with peers
Next to other General Practice Dentistry providers in Massachusetts
Rank by total paid#230 of 693
Median peer was paid$87K
This provider vs. median3.0×
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 | 1,313 | $45K | |
| 2019 | 1,140 | $36K | |
| 2020 | 2,919 | $100K | |
| 2021 | 3,108 | $78K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D7210 | Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth | 23% | 449 | 207 | $59K |
| D0140 | Limited oral evaluation - problem focused | 18% | 1,345 | 1,245 | $47K |
| D1110 | Prophylaxis - adult | 18% | 1,032 | 972 | $46K |
| D0274 | Bitewings - four radiographic images | 9.4% | 808 | 775 | $24K |
| D0150 | Comprehensive oral evaluation - new or established patient | 7.6% | 555 | 535 | $20K |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 7.0% | 1,358 | 1,280 | $18K |
| D2392 | Resin-based composite - two surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent | 5.1% | 202 | 120 | $13K |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 4.3% | 569 | 541 | $11K |
| D0230 | Intraoral - periapical each additional radiographic image | 2.4% | 580 | 482 | $6K |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 2.1% | 122 | 118 | $5K |
| D0210 | Intraoral - complete series of radiographic images | 1.6% | 70 | 68 | $4K |
| D2393 | Resin-based composite - three surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent | 1.1% | 49 | 26 | $3K |
3 more codes
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 officialNAJI, SAIF (PRESIDENT)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| American Dental Consultants | Malden, MA | $1.25M |
| American Dental of Quincy PC | Quincy, MA | $1.15M |
| American Dental of Watertown | Watertown, MA | $722K |
| American Dental of Cambridge | Cambridge, MA | $202K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.