Pine Bush Medicaid dental services payments rise to $200,710 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Pine Bush billed a total of $200,710 for services in the Dental Services category, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. This amount reflects an 11.4% rise from 2023, when claims for the same services totaled $180,241.

Medicaid, a government health insurance program administered by states and funded in partnership between federal and state governments, provides coverage to low-income families, elderly individuals, children, and people living with disabilities. As one of the nation’s largest health care programs, it plays a significant role in the U.S. health system.

Because Medicaid is taxpayer-funded, shifts in local billing demonstrate how public health care resources are distributed within a community.

The “Dental Services” category includes Medicaid-claimed services grouped by care type using standardized HCPCS and CPT coding systems. For this analysis, each code was allocated to a single category, ensuring services are assessed collectively without duplicating counts and maintaining accurate comparisons over time.

Dental Services saw the highest total Medicaid payments in Pine Bush across all categories in 2024, as overall Medicaid spending grew in several areas.

Statewide in New York, Dental Services placed 11th among Medicaid service categories for total payments during 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Medicaid payments linked to Dental Services in Pine Bush jumped by $194,036, a 2907.1% increase. Some of the sharpest annual increases were observed in 2021 and 2022.

Although spending for Dental Services was spread throughout the city, the majority of payments were linked to just a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 12566 accounted for $200,709 in Dental Services Medicaid payments, representing all of the city’s dental Medicaid claims for the year.

Within this category, Medicaid payments were concentrated within a small number of billing codes.

For context, the 11.4% increase in Dental Services Medicaid payments in Pine Bush between 2024 and 2023 outpaced the 2.5% overall increase for all Medicaid claim categories in the city for the same time frame.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total federal and state Medicaid spending climbed to about $871.7 billion in the 2023 fiscal year, or nearly 18% of America’s total health spending—an increase from approximately $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This jump represents about 40% growth over several years, largely due to increased enrollment and greater use of services during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget initiatives during the Trump administration have included major efforts to trim federal Medicaid outlays and reshape the program’s structure. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, aims to reduce federal Medicaid funding by over $1 trillion in the next decade. The law also brings new policies such as work requirements and added cost-sharing, which could impact coverage and funding levels for some beneficiaries. These measures are anticipated to increase state financial responsibility while limiting future federal Medicaid growth, although the program still covers tens of millions nationwide.

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.