Medicaid Dental Services payments in Rocklin jumped 73.3% in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Rocklin billed $396,262 for services under the Dental Services category, based on data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This was an increase of 73.3% compared with 2023, when $228,665 in claims were submitted for the same services.

Medicaid is a public health insurance program administered by states and funded in partnership by federal and state governments. The program covers low-income residents, families, seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities, and represents one of the largest sectors of the U.S. health care system.

Since Medicaid funding originates from taxpayers, fluctuations in local billing totals reveal shifts in how public health funds are distributed within a community.

The “Dental Services” category denotes a group of Medicaid services identified by type of care and standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this report, each billing code was assigned to one service category using uniform code prefixes and range groupings, ensuring related services were grouped while excluding duplicates and maintaining accurate longitudinal rankings.

Although Medicaid spending went up in various service categories, Dental Services was the fifth highest category for total Medicaid payments in Rocklin during 2024.

Statewide in California, Dental Services ranked 11th in total Medicaid payments for 2024.

Looking back over five years up to 2024, payments for Dental Services in Rocklin rose by $370,439, or 1434.5%. The rate of spending growth quickened in some periods, highlighted by marked annual jumps in 2021 and 2022.

Though dental care spending was distributed citywide, the majority of Medicaid payments were concentrated in select ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 95765 alone accounted for $396,261, representing 100% of all Medicaid payments for Dental Services in Rocklin that year.

Within the Dental Services group, Medicaid payments were concentrated across a small subset of billing codes.

Comparatively, Medicaid Dental Services payments in Rocklin increased 73.3% from 2023 to 2024, while total Medicaid claim categories citywide rose 17.5% during the same timeframe.

Data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services indicate combined federal and state Medicaid spending totaled about $871.7 billion during fiscal year 2023, which comprised roughly 18% of overall national health expenditures. This was a sharp increase from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This growth reflects nearly a 40% rise in several years, primarily attributed to increased enrollment and service usage during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget legislation under the Trump administration has included sizable proposals aimed at reducing federal support and revising the Medicaid program. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” became law in 2025 and is projected to reduce federal Medicaid funding by more than $1 trillion over the next decade. The law enacts measures such as work requirements and more cost-sharing, which may decrease benefits and funding for some. The anticipated result is a greater financial burden on states and restrained growth in federal spending, even as Medicaid serves 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.