NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Dental Assistant in Louisiana

15 NPPES records list dental assistant with a practice address in Louisiana, 0.3 per 100,000 residents, the 27th highest rate of 50. Fort Polk and Baton Rouge have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Louisiana license search.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 126800000X · method

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

Fort Polk has the most, 6

  1. Fort Polk6
  2. Baton Rouge2
  3. Shreveport2
  4. Bossier City1
  5. Frot Polk1

Dental Assistant records in Louisiana

  1. Tiffany AlexanderFt Polk, LA 714591073017158
  2. Teresa ContrerasFort Polk, LA 714591154773802
  3. Danielle DreherShreveport, LA 711071891260899
  4. Michael EvansBossier City, LA 711111336093731
  5. Roslyn FaulkFrot Polk, LA 714591306298997
  6. John GuyFort Polk, LA 714591922450683
  7. Ibrahim Idoh, DENTAL HYGIENEFort Polk, LA 714591255299368
  8. Lori Kennedy, EDDAShreveport, LA 711011710349048
  9. Sarah Lashney, RDAPineville, LA 713601629577663
  10. Kevin McDowellFort Polk, LA 714591780035238
  11. Tonia MillerHaughton, LA 710371841730090
  12. Karyn RogesBaton Rouge, LA 708051104431162
  13. Tangeles StewartBaton Rouge, LA 708121801600887
  14. Desiree StoutFort Polk, LA 714591215622642
  15. Jerardy Velasquez-BravoFort Polk, LA 714591861311573

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 126800000X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Louisiana ranks 27 of 50 per resident

  1. Idaho0.4
  2. Nebraska0.4
  3. Iowa0.3
  4. Louisiana0.3
  5. Vermont0.3
  6. Delaware0.3
  7. 50 states and D.C.0.8

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 126800000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

0.0% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 0.5% nationally

A Medicare file here is Part D prescribing (2024), a MIPS score (2023), an Open Payments record (2024) or Medicare group billing (CMS Doctors and Clinicians). A record outside them may still see patients: these files cover Medicare only.

  1. Louisiana0.0%
  2. United States0.5%

Dental Assistant records in Louisiana, measured

  • In a Medicare file0 of 15 · 0.0% here, 0.5% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file0 · 0.0% here, 0.0% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more10 · 66.7% here, 79.8% nationally

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 126800000X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

15 NPPES records list dental assistant (126800000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Louisiana: 0.3 per 100,000 residents against 0.8 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Fort Polk has 6 of them (40%).

A record is a registration a provider made and keeps up to date: it shows neither that the provider is licensed nor that they still practice there. The state's own license search is the check.

States with a similar number

  1. Kansas16
  2. Massachusetts16
  3. Maine14
  4. Puerto Rico16

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Iowa0.3
  2. North Carolina0.3
  3. Florida0.3
  4. Texas0.4

The largest states

  1. California969
  2. Oregon295
  3. Ohio182
  4. Washington182
  5. Colorado157

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy; 2023 Census population estimates. A registry record is not a license.

Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.