{"schema":"gale.providerFacts/1","npi":"1114075710","url":"https://www.gale.care/providers/la/baton-rouge/richard-appleton-dds-ms-1114075710","factsUrl":"https://www.gale.care/npi/1114075710.json","markdownUrl":"https://www.gale.care/npi/1114075710.md","generatedAt":"2026-11-02T23:55:11.989Z","exportId":null,"factsHash":"27420242a22866a3","factsChangedAt":"2026-06-08T00:00:00.000Z","index":{"robots":"index","basis":"index-all"},"summary":"Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710) is listed in the NPPES registry with the specialty Prosthodontics in Baton Rouge, LA, phone (225) 291-6221, as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026.","identity":{"name":{"id":"name","value":"Richard Appleton","status":"self-reported","source":"nppes-registry","asOf":"2026-06-08","checkedAt":null,"staleAfter":null,"confidence":"high","gate":"G0","sentence":"The NPPES registry lists Richard Appleton under NPI 1114075710, as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."},"credential":{"id":"credential","value":"DDS, MS","status":"self-reported","source":"nppes-registry","asOf":"2026-06-08","checkedAt":null,"staleAfter":null,"confidence":"high","gate":"G0","sentence":"The NPPES registry lists the credential DDS, MS for Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710), as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."},"specialty":{"id":"specialty","value":"Prosthodontics","status":"self-reported","source":"nppes-registry","asOf":"2026-06-08","checkedAt":null,"staleAfter":null,"confidence":"high","gate":"G0","sentence":"The NPPES registry lists Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710) under the specialty Prosthodontics, as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."},"registryStage":{"id":"registry-stage","value":"as-listed","status":"self-reported","source":"nppes-registry","asOf":"2026-06-08","checkedAt":null,"staleAfter":null,"confidence":"high","gate":"G0","sentence":"The NPPES registry does not list Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710) under a training program, as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."},"npiIssued":{"id":"npi-issued","value":2007,"status":"confirmed","source":"nppes-registry","asOf":"2026-06-08","checkedAt":null,"staleAfter":null,"confidence":"high","gate":"G0","sentence":"The NPPES registry shows NPI 1114075710 (Richard Appleton, DDS, MS) issued in 2007, as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."},"practiceType":{"id":"practice-type","value":"sole-proprietor","status":"self-reported","source":"nppes-registry","asOf":"2026-06-08","checkedAt":null,"staleAfter":null,"confidence":"high","gate":"G0","sentence":"The NPPES registry lists Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710) as a sole proprietor, as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."}},"location":{"city":{"id":"city","value":"Baton Rouge","status":"self-reported","source":"nppes-registry","asOf":"2026-06-08","checkedAt":null,"staleAfter":null,"confidence":"high","gate":"G0","sentence":"The NPPES registry lists a practice location in Baton Rouge for Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710), as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."},"state":{"id":"state","value":"LA","status":"self-reported","source":"nppes-registry","asOf":"2026-06-08","checkedAt":null,"staleAfter":null,"confidence":"high","gate":"G0","sentence":"The NPPES registry lists a practice location in LA for Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710), as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."}},"contact":{"phone":{"id":"phone","value":"(225) 291-6221","status":"self-reported","source":"nppes-registry","asOf":"2026-06-08","checkedAt":null,"staleAfter":null,"confidence":"high","gate":"G0","sentence":"The NPPES registry lists (225) 291-6221 as the practice phone for Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710), as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."}},"care":{},"insurance":{"rows":[],"coverage":{"state":"LA","covered":false,"checkedAt":null}},"publicRecord":{},"claim":{"claimed":false,"identityConfirmedOn":null},"actions":{"call":"tel:+12252916221","book":null,"payDoor":null,"saveContact":"/npi/1114075710.vcf","intent":null},"hiddenFacts":[],"answers":[{"q":"new-patients","status":"unknown","answer":"Gale has no record of whether Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710) is taking new patients. Ask the office.","factIds":[]},{"q":"insurance","status":"unknown","answer":"Gale has no record of which insurance Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710) takes. Ask the office.","factIds":[]},{"q":"cost","status":"unknown","answer":"Gale has no record of what a first visit with Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710) costs. Paying yourself? You can ask for a written Good Faith Estimate before the visit.","factIds":[]},{"q":"video","status":"unknown","answer":"Gale has no record of whether Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710) offers video visits. Ask the office.","factIds":[]},{"q":"where","status":"self-reported","answer":"Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710) is listed in Baton Rouge, LA by the NPPES registry, as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026.","factIds":["city","state"]},{"q":"who-they-see","status":"unknown","answer":"Gale has no record of who Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710) sees. Ask the office.","factIds":[]},{"q":"help-with","status":"unknown","answer":"Gale has no record of what Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710) helps with beyond the registry specialty. Ask the office.","factIds":[]},{"q":"languages","status":"unknown","answer":"Gale has no record of the languages Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710) speaks. Ask the office.","factIds":[]},{"q":"how-to-book","status":"self-reported","answer":"Call (225) 291-6221, the practice phone the NPPES registry lists for Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710) (Jun 8, 2026).","factIds":["phone"]},{"q":"next-opening","status":"unknown","answer":"Gale has no record of the next opening for Richard Appleton, DDS, MS (NPI 1114075710). 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It is not the date of the event the record describes: an opt-out states its own start and end dates in its sentence.","checkedAt":"When Gale last read the source.","staleAfter":"After this date the fact keeps its status word and date, and staleNote says the record is old; later still it is dropped. A fact from a full CMS or state file the publisher has not replaced stays, marked stale, for as long as that file is the newest one, and its staleNote says Gale found no newer file.","staleNote":"On a fact past its fresh window only: the record's age, as its own sentence (\"The state file is old; Gale found no newer one.\"). It never changes the status.","confidence":"How far Gale trusts the source, measured on the source (high, medium, low, none). Never a judgment of the clinician.","cautions":"hand-check: Gale checked a sample of this source by hand and found errors (sources[].handCheck has the numbers). conflict: another source disagrees (see conflict). stale: the record is past its fresh window. A caution never changes the status.","gate":"The publication switch that lets this kind of fact show. It says nothing about the clinician.","checkedSources":"For a not-listed fact: each source that was read, with its date.","insurance.rows[].value":"payer is a short id for the plan and payerLabel its name. line is the kind of plan: commercial, marketplace (individual and family), medicare, medicare-advantage, medi-cal, tricare, va, workers-comp. accepts is true on a listing and false only on a dated refusal (a directory's \"not accepting\" or an opt-out), never from absence; on a lead (status inferred) it is null, because a price file never says a clinician accepts a plan. optOut, on an Original Medicare opt-out, is the opt-out's own start and end dates (from, to) from CMS's opt-out list. setting is where the listing says care happens (office, virtual, both), or null when the source does not say.","insurance.coverage":"covered: whether Gale read the insurance files for this state; checkedAt: when it last did.","sources[].kind":"registry: the NPPES registry. cms-file, state-file: government files. directory: an insurer's directory. price-file: an insurer's published rates, which give leads only. gale: Gale's booking system. clinician: the clinician on Gale.","sources[].fileDate":"The date of the source file Gale read.","sources[].handCheck":"Gale's hand check of the source: checked is how many of its entries Gale checked by hand, wrong how many of those were wrong, at the date of the check. It describes the source, not this clinician.","sources[].asserting":"true when the source lists every clinician it covers, so its silence can support a not-listed fact. Only such sources ever do.","factsHash":"Changes only when a fact changes, never on a re-check.","index.basis":"Why the page is or is not indexed. index-all: indexed. Anything else: not indexed, and no reason about the clinician is given.","exportId":"The data export the facts come from.","hiddenFacts":"Facts withheld because someone disputed them. No reason is given."}}