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Community Health Center
LA CASA DE BUENA SALUD - CLOVIS
1521 W 13th St, Clovis, NM 88101-5568
LA CASA DE BUENA SALUD - CLOVIS is a community health center dental clinic in Clovis, NM, operated by La Casa de Buena Salud, which runs 3 clinics in New Mexico.
The health center is open about 40 hours a week, though dental sessions are usually a subset of that.
Clinic Details
| Address | 1521 W 13th St, Clovis, NM 88101 |
|---|---|
| Phone | 575-769-0888 |
| Operated by | La Casa de Buena Salud |
| Program | Health Center Program (federally funded) |
| Site schedule | Full-Time |
| Operating calendar | Year-Round |
| Published hours | Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 5 PM |
Published hours describe the health center overall and may not reflect when dental appointments are available. Confirm current dental hours with the clinic.
Planning Your Visit
1521 W 13th St, Clovis, NM 88101
The published number is 575-769-0888. It may be a shared scheduling line. Say which site you mean and that you want dental rather than medical, or you can be booked into the wrong queue.
Things to settle on the phone first: whether new dental patients are being taken, and the current wait, what a first visit costs, before and after any discount, whether your insurance or Medicaid dental plan is accepted, by plan name, and what to bring for the sliding fee application.
Dental Services
This clinic has not published a list of the treatments it provides. Expect the routine treatments to be available. The question worth asking is about the expensive ones: root canals, dentures and oral surgery are handled in house at some health centers and referred out at others.
Costs and Coverage
Charges are set against household income and household size rather than a fixed fee schedule. Where the thresholds fall is decided by La Casa de Buena Salud, so what a friend paid elsewhere is not a guide. Ask them to run your household through it before you commit to a treatment plan. Our guide to applying for the discount lists the documents to bring.
No Medicaid registration has been recorded for this clinic, which is not the same as Medicaid being refused. What New Mexico Medicaid covers for adults is a state decision and has been cut and restored in several states; for children the benefit is required nationally. The Medicaid dental page covers how to check yours.
Common Questions
Can I get dentures here?
Many health centers do dentures, and the discount can make them dramatically cheaper than private practice. The catch is laboratory costs, which are often billed on top of the discounted fee and are the bulk of the price. Ask for the total including laboratory work.
Can I pay in installments?
Many health centers will arrange this, particularly for dentures or a course of treatment, but it is rarely advertised and you generally have to ask. Agree the amount and the schedule before treatment starts, and ask what happens if you miss one, because that varies more than the plans themselves do.
How do they work out what I pay?
From your household income and family size, checked against a scale the clinic sets itself. That is why a quote from another clinic tells you nothing about this one. Our guide to applying for the discount lists the documents to take.
Do they do root canals, or would I be referred out?
This is the question worth asking before anything else if you already know you need one. Health centers commonly do extractions in-house and refer root canals to a private endodontist at full price, which changes the arithmetic completely. Ask before you start treatment, not after.
Does my partner’s income count?
If you share a household, generally yes, and household size counts in your favor at the same time — the scale reads income against the number of people it supports. Say who lives with you and who depends on that income, rather than giving a single figure and letting them assume.
Is treatment free?
Usually not, though it can come close. Clinics like this one discount by household income and are required to see patients regardless of ability to pay, but a charge normally applies and the lowest band is a nominal fee rather than nothing. La Casa de Buena Salud sets its own scale.
Size of the Dental Service
La Casa de Buena Salud provided 13,758 dental visits and 5,848 dental patients in 2025, with the equivalent of 15.65 full-time dental staff. This indicates an established dental service operating regular sessions, although appointment availability still varies by clinic and time of year.
Figures describe the operating organization as a whole, across all of its clinics.
Other Clinics Operated by La Casa de Buena Salud
La Casa de Buena Salud operates 2 other clinics in 2 other communities in New Mexico. Asking the scheduling line which site can see you soonest is usually faster than calling each in turn; the shortest wait is not always the closest clinic. A sliding fee determination made at one of its clinics commonly carries across to the others, so income documents may not need providing twice. What is treated at one site is no guide to another, so confirm with the clinic you actually intend to visit.
Other Dental Clinics Nearby
Distances are as the crow flies. Wait times are set clinic by clinic, so ask each one rather than assuming.
- DBA LA CASA FAMILY HEALTH CENTER — Portales, about 17.1 miles away
- Regence Health Network, Inc. RMDA - HRF — Hereford, about 54.4 miles away
- PMS - Quay County Family Dental — Tucumcari, about 58.9 miles away
- SOUTH PLAINS RURAL HEALTH SERVICES, INC. — Levelland, about 75.5 miles away
Confirmed Payment Options
Income-Based Fees
Call LA CASA DE BUENA SALUD - CLOVIS
Confirm current dental services, appointment availability, costs and accepted insurance directly with the clinic.
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