Dental
Merchant, Nirali
Merchant, Nirali was paid $110K by Medicaid between Apr 2018 and May 2021, across 14 billing codes. Its largest line is D1120, dental cleaning, child — 20% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMERCHANT, NIRALI
BRIDGEPORT, CT 06610
BRIDGEPORT, CT 06610
33aNPI1730598285assigned 08/08/2014
33bProvider typeGeneral Practice Dentistry
28Total paid$110K
24GClaims4,694
24DCodes billed14
24AFirst – last monthApr 2018 – May 2021
Compared with peers
Next to other General Practice Dentistry providers in Connecticut
Rank by total paid#191 of 431
Median peer was paid$79K
This provider vs. median1.4×
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 | 512 | $11K | |
| 2019 | 570 | $15K | |
| 2020 | 1,807 | $40K | |
| 2021 | 1,805 | $44K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1120 | Dental cleaning, childProphylaxis - child | 20% | 485 | 485 | $22K |
| D1206 | Topical application of fluoride varnish | 19% | 679 | 679 | $21K |
| D0120 | Dental checkup, returning patientPeriodic oral evaluation - established patient | 15% | 660 | 660 | $16K |
| D1351 | Sealant - per tooth | 11% | 623 | 130 | $12K |
| D2392 | Resin-based composite - two surfaces, posterior, primary or permanent | 11% | 170 | 111 | $12K |
| D1110 | Prophylaxis - adult | 6.3% | 153 | 153 | $7K |
| D2391 | Resin-based composite - one surface, posterior, primary or permanent | 4.0% | 81 | 59 | $4K |
| D0220 | Intraoral - periapical first radiographic image | 2.5% | 547 | 547 | $3K |
| D0603 | 2.2% | 244 | 244 | $2K | |
| D9230 | Inhalation of nitrous oxide / analgesia, anxiolysis | 2.2% | 98 | 98 | $2K |
| D0274 | Bitewings - four radiographic images | 1.9% | 176 | 176 | $2K |
| D0272 | Bitewings - two radiographic images | 1.9% | 210 | 210 | $2K |
2 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.