Clarence Center sees $68,034 in Medicaid dental payments in 2024

Dental service providers in Clarence Center submitted Medicaid claims totaling $68,034 in 2024, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented an 81.9% rise from 2023, when providers billed $37,410 for the same service category.

Medicaid is a public insurance program managed by individual states with funding provided through both state and federal governments. The program covers low-income groups including individuals, families, seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities, and is a core part of U.S. health care.

Since Medicaid funding comes from taxpayers, variations in local billing offer insight into how public health funds are spent in different communities.

The “Dental Services” classification comprises Medicaid-billed services organized by care type, based on established HCPCS and CPT code groups. In conducting this review, each code was placed into a single service category by code range and prefix, ensuring related services could be summed without duplicate counting, while rankings could be tracked accurately over time.

Medicaid outlays rose across several service categories, but Dental Services registered the highest total Medicaid payments for Clarence Center in 2024.

The Dental Services category held the 11th spot statewide by payment totals in New York in 2024.

Across the five-year span through 2024, Medicaid payments linked to Dental Services in Clarence Center increased by $68,034, or 0%. Some periods saw more pronounced growth, including significant annual increases reported in 2023 and 2022.

Though spending covered the city, payments for Dental Services largely originated from only a small segment of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 14032 generated the most Dental Services-related Medicaid payments, accounting for $68,033. Overall, the leading ZIP code was responsible for 100% of these payments in Clarence Center during the year.

In this category, the funds were clustered among a few distinct billing codes.

To compare, Dental Services Medicaid payments in Clarence Center surged by 81.9% from 2023 to 2024, while all Medicaid claim categories combined increased by 18.7% in the city during the same timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total federal and state Medicaid expenditures reached approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, which accounted for about 18% of all U.S. health spending and rose sharply from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This rise is an increase of roughly 40% in just a few years, influenced mainly by expanded enrollment and increased utilization surrounding the pandemic.

Recent federal budget measures under the Trump administration have included major proposals to scale back federal Medicaid support and modify the program. As an example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion over 10 years and establishes provisions like work requirements and greater cost-sharing that may restrict coverage and funding for some enrollees. These steps will likely shift more costs onto states and curb federal Medicaid growth, even as the program 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.