medicaid-dental-paid-by-state-2018-2024

Medicaid paid amount per dental claim line by CDT procedure code and U.S. state, 2018-2024 (20,487 rows: 61 CDT codes x 51 states + US aggregate x yearly and 2023-2024 periods). Derived from HHS/CMS T-MSIS Medicaid Provider Spending (v2026-02-09), provider state geolocated with NPPES (Aug 2026). Columns: cdt_code, rdc_label (plain-language label written by Real Dental Costs, not the ADA descriptor), state, period, paid_per_line_wavg_usd (weighted average paid per claim line), median_cell_usd, p25_usd, p75_usd, claim_lines, patients_sum, n_providers, n_cells, state_quality_flag, source. Cells under 12 claim lines or 12 patients are suppressed upstream by HHS. Paid is a program payment to the dentist, not an allowed amount, a fee schedule or a patient price. Documentation, methodology and JSON API: [https://realdentalcosts.com/en/api/](https://realdentalcosts.com/en/api/) Adult Medicaid dental coverage context by state: [https://realdentalcosts.com/en/medicaid-dental-coverage-by-state/](https://realdentalcosts.com/en/medicaid-dental-coverage-by-state/) Archived copy with DOI: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7F2BZI (Harvard Dataverse). License: CC BY 4.0 (derived tables); the upstream T-MSIS release is a U.S. federal government work.