Bennett Medicaid dental payments total $101,729 in 2024, up 41% from prior year

Bennett’s Medicaid providers billed $101,729 for dental services in 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 41.2% rise from 2023, when providers submitted $72,065 in claims for dental services.

Medicaid, a joint state and federal public health insurance initiative, serves low-income individuals, children, seniors and people with disabilities, making it a significant component of the U.S. health care system. Funding comes from both state and federal governments, as detailed in the Commonwealth Fund.

Since Medicaid is funded by taxpayers, shifts in local billing indicate how public health dollars are used within a specific community.

The “Dental Services” category includes a group of Medicaid-billed services defined by the care provided and based on standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. In this analysis, billing codes were each assigned to a single service category with consistent prefixes and numeric ranges, grouping related services while preventing double counting to keep rankings accurate over time.

Dental Services was the second-highest Medicaid spending category in Bennett in 2024, reflecting increased provider billing in multiple service areas.

Statewide, Dental Services held the seventh position by overall Medicaid payments in Colorado for 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Medicaid payments for dental services in Bennett grew by $52,533, or 106.8%. The pace of spending picked up during certain periods, including notable annual increases logged in 2022 and 2021.

Though claims for Dental Services covered different areas of the city, most of the payments were concentrated in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 80102 accounted for $101,728 in Medicaid payments, and this ZIP code comprised 100% of all Medicaid Dental Services payments in Bennett that year.

Within the Dental Services category, Medicaid payments mostly centered on a select few billing codes.

Dental Services payments in Bennett rose 41.2% from 2023 to 2024, while overall Medicaid claim categories in the city increased by 16.7% in that same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total federal and state Medicaid spending reached about $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, or 18% of all national health spending. That figure rose from $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This surge represents growth of around 40% over several years, largely fueled by more people enrolling in Medicaid and higher usage during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budgeting priorities under the Trump administration have introduced major proposals to reduce federal Medicaid funding and adjust the program. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to cut over $1 trillion in federal Medicaid dollars over the next decade and brings policies such as mandatory work requirements and higher cost-sharing, which may limit access or funding for some recipients. These measures are anticipated to shift more expenses to states and restrict the rate at which federal Medicaid support grows, 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.