tresor2k/us-medicaid-dental-payments-by-state-2018-2024
US Medicaid Dental Payments by CDT Code and State (2018-2024) What Medicaid actually paid dentists per claim line, by CDT procedure code (61 codes), by U.S. state (50 states + DC + national) and by period (2018-2024 yearly, plus a pooled 2023-2024 period). Derived from the HHS T-MSIS Medicaid Provider Spending file (v2026-02-09, 25.3M CDT cells, $47.6B paid) joined to NPPES (Aug 2026). Key national findings Only 20.0% of active U.S. dentists (53,926 of 269,978) billed Medicaid… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/tresor2k/us-medicaid-dental-payments-by-state-2018-2024.
US Medicaid Dental Payments by CDT Code and State (2018-2024)
What Medicaid actually paid dentists per claim line, by CDT procedure code (61 codes), by U.S. state (50 states + DC + national) and by period (2018-2024 yearly, plus a pooled 2023-2024 period). Derived from the HHS T-MSIS Medicaid Provider Spending file (v2026-02-09, 25.3M CDT cells, $47.6B paid) joined to NPPES (Aug 2026).
Key national findings
- Only 20.0% of active U.S. dentists (53,926 of 269,978) billed Medicaid in 2023-2024.
- A porcelain crown (D2740) averaged $546 per Medicaid claim line vs $1,369 cash price (2.5x gap).
Columns
cdt_code, rdc_label, state, period, paid_per_line_wavg_usd, median_cell_usd, p25_usd, p75_usd, claim_lines, patients_sum, n_providers, n_cells, state_quality_flag, source
Per-state quality flags: AZ/FL/OR/VA report nominal-value amounts for some periods — see the methodology page before comparing across states.
Links and citation
- Canonical DOI: 10.7910/DVN/7F2BZI (Harvard Dataverse)
- Interactive explorer: realdentalcosts.com/en/medicaid-dental-coverage-by-state
- Open JSON API (61 CDT codes): realdentalcosts.com/en/api
- How to cite: realdentalcosts.com/en/cite-this-data
Compiled by the Real Dental Costs Data & Research Team. License CC BY 4.0 — attribution to realdentalcosts.com. This is pricing/market research, not medical advice.