Paul Medicaid dental service payments reach $32 in 2024, rising 68.4% from prior year

Paul Medicaid providers billed $32 in 2024 for services under the Dental Services category, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount reflects a 68.4% rise compared to 2023, when $19 in claims were filed for these services.

Medicaid is a state-administered health insurance program that receives funding from both federal and state governments. It serves low-income people, seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities, making it a significant component of the U.S. health care landscape. More details on Medicaid funding structure can be found here.

Because Medicaid funding draws from public dollars, fluctuations in local billing reflect how a community allocates health care resources.

The “Dental Services” category includes multiple Medicaid-billed procedures, grouped according to standardized HCPCS and CPT code classifications. In this analysis, billing codes were assigned exclusively to one service category, based on consistent code prefixes and ranges, to enable an accurate, non-duplicative look at categorical spending and rankings over the years.

Although Medicaid expenditures increased in several service categories, Dental Services held the No. 2 spot in Paul by total Medicaid payments for 2024.

Statewide, the Dental Services category finished in seventh place by total Medicaid billing in Idaho in 2024.

Across the five years prior to 2024, Medicaid spending linked to the Dental Services category in Paul increased by $32, representing no change in percentage terms. Periods of accelerated growth occurred, with pronounced year-over-year gains noted during 2023 and 2022.

Medicaid-related spending for Dental Services occurred throughout Paul but was mainly concentrated in a small set of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 83347 accounted for $32, making it the top ZIP code for Dental Services Medicaid billing and representing 100.7% of the city’s total in this category for the year.

Within Dental Services, Medicaid payments were further concentrated among a limited set of billing codes.

As a point of reference, Medicaid payments for Dental Services in Paul rose 68.4% from 2023 to 2024, compared with a 20650.1% overall increase across all Medicaid claim categories in the city for the same timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, federal and state Medicaid spending totaled approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, making up around 18% of the nation’s total health expenditures. This reflects a sharp increase from about $613.5 billion in 2019, ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This rise amounts to a roughly 40% escalation over a few years, largely as a result of both increased enrollment and higher use of health care services during and following the pandemic period.

Legislative changes under the Trump administration brought forth major proposals to reduce federal Medicaid spending and alter the program. For example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is set to cut over $1 trillion from federal Medicaid funding over 10 years and implements new policies, such as work requirements and greater cost-sharing. These measures may decrease both coverage and funding for certain recipients and are expected to shift more costs to the states, creating limits on federal program growth while Medicaid continues to cover tens of millions of Americans.

Note: HCPCS codes are shown for context within the category. Category totals and rankings in this article are based on standardized service groupings rather than individual billing codes.

Information in this article was obtained from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. The source data can be found here.