Williston Medicaid dental services payments climb to $32,216 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Williston reported $32,216 in billings for dental services, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount represents a 2.9% uptick from 2023, when claims submitted for the same service totaled $31,320.

Medicaid, a government-run health insurance program administered by the states and financed with both federal and state funds, helps cover low-income individuals and families, seniors, children, and those with disabilities, making it one of the largest sectors in U.S. health care.

Because taxpayer dollars fund Medicaid payments, shifts in local billing highlight how public health care funding is distributed within communities.

The “Dental Services” category aggregates Medicaid-billed services by the nature of care delivered, relying on standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this analysis, each billing code was allocated to a single service category using uniform code prefixes and numeric ranges. This enabled effective grouping of related services and ensured accurate rankings over time without double counting.

Medicaid payments across several service groupings rose, and Dental Services ranked as the second-largest Medicaid payment category in Williston for 2024.

At the state level, Dental Services was the 15th largest category for total Medicaid payments in Florida in 2024.

From 2019 through 2024, Medicaid payments linked to dental services in Williston climbed by $7,507, or 30.4%. Periods of accelerated growth were seen, with significant year-over-year increases noted in 2022 and 2022.

While dental services Medicaid payments were distributed citywide, most of the funds were concentrated in a select few ZIP codes. For 2024, ZIP code 32696 accounted for the full $32,216 in payments. Altogether, the leading ZIP code made up 100% of Medicaid dental service payments in Williston for the year.

Within this category, most Medicaid payments were tied to just a handful of billing codes.

Comparatively, Medicaid dental service payments in Williston increased 2.9% between 2024 and 2023. This contrasts with a 9% change across all Medicaid claim categories in the city over the same timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, joint federal and state Medicaid expenditures totaled about $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, representing roughly 18% of total U.S. health care expenditures and a substantial increase from approximately $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This growth amounts to nearly 40% over several years, fueled in large part by increased enrollment and higher utilization during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget measures under the Trump administration have featured major proposals to reduce federal Medicaid allocations and reshape the program. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is forecast to cut federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over 10 years, adding policies such as work requirements and enhanced cost-sharing that could restrict coverage and funding for certain recipients. These adjustments are expected to shift more financial responsibility to state governments and slow the growth of federal Medicaid backing, even as the program continues to serve 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.