Medicaid dental service payments in Rice reach $2,069 for 2024

In 2024, $2,069 in Medicaid claims were billed by providers in Rice for Dental Services, based on data reported in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. That represented a 0.2% uptick from 2023, when Dental Services claims totaled $2,065.

Medicaid is a state-administered health insurance initiative, funded collaboratively by federal and state governments. This program provides coverage for low-income individuals and families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities, making it a major component of the U.S. health care system.

Since Medicaid expenditures derive from taxpayers, fluctuations in local billing highlight shifts in community-level deployment of public health care funds.

The “Dental Services” definition includes a set of services billed to Medicaid, organized by care type and based on standardized HCPCS and CPT coding structures. Each billing code used in this review was placed into one service category using uniform code prefixes and numeric groupings to group similar services, prevent double-counting, and accurately rank categories over time.

Alongside growth in other categories, Dental Services led in Rice as the category with the highest overall Medicaid payments in 2024.

Across Minnesota, Dental Services was the ninth-ranked category in total Medicaid payments for 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Medicaid payments for Dental Services in Rice rose by $1,783, a 622.5% surge. Years such as 2021 and 2022 saw particularly large year-over-year increases.

Even though Dental Services Medicaid spending appeared across Rice, payouts were concentrated in just a few ZIP codes. In 2024, the ZIP code 56367 was responsible for $2,069 in Medicaid dental payments, making up 100% of the total for this category in the city that year.

A select group of billing codes within Dental Services captured the majority of Medicaid reimbursement in this category.

Medicaid dental claims in Rice moved up 0.2% from 2023 to 2024, which parallels the 0.2% overall growth rate logged for all Medicaid service categories in the same period in the city.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, federal and state Medicaid spending rose to roughly $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, representing about 18% of the nation’s total health spending—up from $613.5 billion in 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This represents a roughly 40% rise in several years, mostly because of an increased number of enrollees and higher usage during and after the pandemic.

New federal budgeting under the Trump administration has included notable proposals to reduce Medicaid’s federal funding and change the program’s structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is slated to cut federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion over the coming decade and to implement policies such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing, potentially reducing coverage or funding for some enrollees. These changes are forecast to push more costs to states and limit future increases in federal Medicaid support, even as tens of millions still rely on the program.

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.