{"schema":"gale.providerFacts/1","npi":"1649101189","url":"https://www.gale.care/providers/mi/davison/frank-vukaj-dds-1649101189","factsUrl":"https://www.gale.care/npi/1649101189.json","markdownUrl":"https://www.gale.care/npi/1649101189.md","generatedAt":"2026-11-02T23:05:58.720Z","exportId":null,"factsHash":"38e35d12b6e12bde","factsChangedAt":"2026-06-08T00:00:00.000Z","index":{"robots":"index","basis":"index-all"},"summary":"Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189) is listed in the NPPES registry with the specialty Dentist in Davison, MI, phone (810) 394-3588, as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026.","identity":{"name":{"id":"name","value":"Frank Vukaj","status":"self-reported","source":"nppes-registry","asOf":"2026-06-08","checkedAt":null,"staleAfter":null,"confidence":"high","gate":"G0","sentence":"The NPPES registry lists Frank Vukaj under NPI 1649101189, as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."},"credential":{"id":"credential","value":"DDS","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 for Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189), as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."},"specialty":{"id":"specialty","value":"Dentist","status":"self-reported","source":"nppes-registry","asOf":"2026-06-08","checkedAt":null,"staleAfter":null,"confidence":"high","gate":"G0","sentence":"The NPPES registry lists Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189) under the specialty Dentist, 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 Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189) under a training program, as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."},"npiIssued":{"id":"npi-issued","value":2026,"status":"confirmed","source":"nppes-registry","asOf":"2026-06-08","checkedAt":null,"staleAfter":null,"confidence":"high","gate":"G0","sentence":"The NPPES registry shows NPI 1649101189 (Frank Vukaj, DDS) issued in 2026, as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."},"practiceType":{"id":"practice-type","value":"not-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 Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189) as not a sole proprietor, as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."}},"location":{"city":{"id":"city","value":"Davison","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 Davison for Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189), as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."},"state":{"id":"state","value":"MI","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 MI for Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189), as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."}},"contact":{"phone":{"id":"phone","value":"(810) 394-3588","status":"self-reported","source":"nppes-registry","asOf":"2026-06-08","checkedAt":null,"staleAfter":null,"confidence":"high","gate":"G0","sentence":"The NPPES registry lists (810) 394-3588 as the practice phone for Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189), as of the registry file of Jun 8, 2026."}},"care":{},"insurance":{"rows":[],"coverage":{"state":"MI","covered":false,"checkedAt":null}},"publicRecord":{},"claim":{"claimed":false,"identityConfirmedOn":null},"actions":{"call":"tel:+18103943588","book":null,"payDoor":null,"saveContact":"/npi/1649101189.vcf","intent":null},"hiddenFacts":[],"answers":[{"q":"new-patients","status":"unknown","answer":"Gale has no record of whether Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189) is taking new patients. Ask the office.","factIds":[]},{"q":"insurance","status":"unknown","answer":"Gale has no record of which insurance Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189) takes. Ask the office.","factIds":[]},{"q":"cost","status":"unknown","answer":"Gale has no record of what a first visit with Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189) 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 Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189) offers video visits. Ask the office.","factIds":[]},{"q":"where","status":"self-reported","answer":"Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189) is listed in Davison, MI 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 Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189) sees. Ask the office.","factIds":[]},{"q":"help-with","status":"unknown","answer":"Gale has no record of what Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189) helps with beyond the registry specialty. Ask the office.","factIds":[]},{"q":"languages","status":"unknown","answer":"Gale has no record of the languages Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189) speaks. Ask the office.","factIds":[]},{"q":"how-to-book","status":"self-reported","answer":"Call (810) 394-3588, the practice phone the NPPES registry lists for Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189) (Jun 8, 2026).","factIds":["phone"]},{"q":"next-opening","status":"unknown","answer":"Gale has no record of the next opening for Frank Vukaj, DDS (NPI 1649101189). 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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."}}