Fyffe Medicaid spending for dental services jumps to $66,873 in 2024

Fyffe Medicaid providers billed $66,873 in 2024 for services under the Dental Services category, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database reports. This amount reflects a 51.9% rise over 2023, when billing in this category reached $44,021.

Medicaid, operated by state governments and jointly funded by federal and state sources, serves low-income families, seniors, children and people with disabilities, making it a major component of the U.S. health care system. More information is available here.

Because taxpayer dollars finance Medicaid, changes in local billing highlight how public health care resources are distributed in a given area.

The “Dental Services” category includes a range of Medicaid-billed care defined by standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For analysis, each billing code is assigned solely to one service group using systematic code prefixes and numeric ranges, so related procedures can be tracked together while avoiding duplicate counts or incorrectly weighted rankings.

Among major service categories, Dental Services was the top Medicaid payment area in Fyffe for 2024.

Statewide, the Dental Services category placed ninth in Alabama by total Medicaid payments in 2024.

In the five years leading up to 2024, Medicaid payment totals for Dental Services in Fyffe grew by $55,490, an increase of 487.5%. Growth sped up during certain intervals, with significant annual jumps in 2021 and 2023.

Although payments for Dental Services spanned the city, the majority were concentrated within a single ZIP code. In 2024, ZIP code 35971 accounted for $66,873 of those payments. The leading ZIP code made up 100% of all Dental Services Medicaid payments in Fyffe during the year.

Within Dental Services, payments were focused on a small subset of billing codes.

Comparing 2024 and 2023, Medicaid Dental Services payments in Fyffe rose by 51.9%, mirroring the percentage growth rate for all Medicaid claim categories in the city over the same period.

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

This nearly 40% increase over a few years resulted mainly from increased enrollment and utilization during and after the pandemic.

Federal budget legislation enacted under the Trump administration contained major proposals to lower federal Medicaid funding and restructure the program. For example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is expected to cut federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over 10 years and add measures like work requirements and higher cost-sharing. These changes could reduce coverage and federal funding for some participants, shift financial responsibility to states, and limit future growth in federal support while the program continues serving 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.