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Dental Care Specialties PC

Dental Care Specialties PC was paid $2.72M by Medicaid between Apr 2021 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is D8670, Periodic orthodontic treatment visit — 57% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoDENTAL CARE SPECIALTIES PC
SPRINGFIELD, MA 01128
33aNPI1952937245assigned 03/18/2020
28Total paid$2.72M
24GClaims13,046
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthApr 2021 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other General Practice Dentistry providers in Massachusetts

Rank by total paid#39 of 693
Median peer was paid$87K
This provider vs. median31×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official TAVANO, JOANNE controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$50K$100K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
20213,057$594K
20223,636$708K
20233,345$760K
2024incomplete3,008$658K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
D8670 Periodic orthodontic treatment visit 57% 7,222 6,468 $1.56M
D8080 Comprehensive orthodontic treatment of the adolescent dentition 32% 733 699 $861K
D8680 5.3% 1,673 1,543 $146K
D9310 3.6% 2,271 1,832 $97K
D8660 1.8% 1,108 1,073 $50K
D8703 <1% 26 26 $2K
D8704 <1% 13 13 $1K

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 officialTAVANO, JOANNE (CFO)
Same official

Other billing entities under TAVANO, JOANNE

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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.