Morrisville’s Medicaid providers reported $332,944 in claims for Dental Services in 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This figure represents a 21.2% rise from 2023, when $274,713 was billed for the category.
Medicaid, a public health insurance initiative operated by the states and funded jointly by federal and state governments, provides coverage for low-income individuals, families, seniors, children and people with disabilities. The program represents a significant portion of the U.S. health care infrastructure.
Because taxpayer funds supply Medicaid payments, fluctuations in local billing deliver insight into how public health care expenditures are distributed within a community.
The “Dental Services” grouping encompasses Medicaid claims as defined by care type, based on uniform HCPCS and CPT code sets. For the purposes of this study, each code was placed in a single service category using standardized prefixes and numeric sequences, ensuring related services could be analyzed in aggregate while preventing overlap or duplicate counts in rankings.
Among several categories experiencing increased Medicaid spending, Dental Services was the fourth-largest by total payments in Morrisville for 2024.
Statewide, Dental Services ranked seventh among payment categories in Vermont in 2024.
Across the five years before 2024, Medicaid spending for Dental Services in Morrisville grew by $269,260, or 422.8%. Gains were especially pronounced during some intervals, most notably in 2023 and 2021.
While Medicaid spending on Dental Services was allocated throughout Morrisville, payments were concentrated in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 05661 accounted for $332,944, representing 100% of the city’s Medicaid payments for the Dental Services category that year.
Spending within the Dental Services category was focused on a few specific billing codes.
Between 2023 and 2024, Medicaid spending for Dental Services in Morrisville rose 21.2%, while overall Medicaid claim categories in the city increased by 7.9% in that timeframe.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, joint federal and state Medicaid expenditures reached about $871.7 billion during fiscal year 2023, roughly 18% of all U.S. health spending, up from $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This expansion reflects an increase of approximately 40% over several years, mainly tied to greater enrollment and service use during and after the pandemic period.
Recent federal budget measures under the Trump administration have contained major proposals to reduce federal funding for Medicaid and alter the program’s structure. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is forecast to trim over $1 trillion in federal Medicaid spending over the next 10 years. The law also brings in changes such as work requirements and higher out-of-pocket costs that may limit coverage and available funding for select enrollees. As a result, states may face increased costs and future federal support may not keep pace with program needs, even as Medicaid continues to cover tens of millions of Americans.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $63,683 | -8.5% |
| 2021 | $113,798 | 78.7% |
| 2022 | $145,310 | 27.7% |
| 2023 | $274,712 | 89.1% |
| 2024 | $332,944 | 21.2% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evaluation and Management | $17,255,013 | 73.3% |
| 2 | National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies | $3,615,583 | 15.4% |
| 3 | Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment | $2,149,661 | 9.1% |
| 4 | Dental Services | $332,944 | 1.4% |
| 5 | Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) | $53,550 | 0.2% |
| 6 | Procedures / Professional Services | $43,301 | 0.2% |
| 7 | Pathology and Laboratory Procedures | $39,433 | 0.2% |
| 8 | Medicine Services and Procedures | $19,122 | 0.1% |
| 9 | Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies | $18,691 | 0.1% |
| 10 | Surgery | $569 | <0.1% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| D0140 | Limit oral eval problm focus | $94,505 | 26 |
| D0330 | Panoramic image | $87,125 | 22 |
| D0120 | Periodic oral evaluation | $49,903 | 36 |
| D0274 | Bitewings four images | $37,572 | 29 |
| D0150 | Comprehensve oral evaluation | $32,856 | 19 |
| D0220 | Intraoral periapical first | $18,655 | 28 |
| D0272 | Dental bitewings two images | $8,584 | 16 |
| D0230 | Intraoral periapical ea add | $3,391 | 13 |
| D0210 | Intraor comprehensive series | $349 | 4 |
| D0601 | Caries risk assess low risk | $0 | 6 |
| D0602 | Caries risk assess mod risk | $0 | 9 |
| D0603 | Caries risk assess high risk | $0 | 11 |
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.
