In 2024, Marathon’s Medicaid providers billed $257,302 for services listed under the Dental Services category, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represents a 355.6% rise from 2023, when charges for these services totaled $56,476.
Medicaid, a public insurance program funded jointly by state and federal governments, supports care for seniors, children, people with disabilities, and low-income individuals and families. It is among the largest programs in the U.S. health care system.
Since taxpayer funding supports Medicaid, trends in local billing reflect how health care dollars are distributed within a community.
The Dental Services category groups Medicaid-billed services with similar types of care using standardized HCPCS and CPT coding structures. For this analysis, billing codes were consistently mapped to one category by code prefix and numeric range, ensuring related services were analyzed together, free from double-counting, and keeping category rankings reliable over time.
Dental Services received the highest overall Medicaid payments among all categories in Marathon during 2024, outpacing other types of care.
Across Florida, Dental Services was the 15th largest Medicaid payment category statewide in 2024.
Over the five years leading up to 2024, Medicaid payments linked to Dental Services in Marathon climbed by $249,058—or 3020.9%. Growth accelerated especially in the most recent years, with significant increases seen in 2023 and 2022.
Though Dental Services funding was distributed throughout Marathon, most payments were concentrated within a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 33050 accounted for $257,302—or 100%—of Medicaid Dental Services expenditures in the city.
Payments in the Dental Services group were primarily linked to a small selection of billing codes.
To compare, while Medicaid payments for Dental Services grew by 355.6% from 2023 to 2024 in Marathon, all Medicaid claim categories in the city experienced a 36.9% increase during the same timeframe.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total federal and state Medicaid spending was nearly $871.7 billion during fiscal 2023, or about 18% of overall U.S. health spending—up considerably from $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This marks an increase of roughly 40% over a few years, mainly due to expanded enrollment and increased use during and following the pandemic.
Recent federal budget measures enacted during the Trump administration aimed to reduce federal Medicaid expenditures and revise how the program operates. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is expected to cut more than $1 trillion in federal Medicaid funding over the next 10 years, while introducing policies like higher cost-sharing and work requirements, potentially reducing some beneficiaries’ coverage and shifting more costs to states—even as Medicaid continues to serve tens of millions.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $8,244 | – |
| 2022 | $0 | -100% |
| 2023 | $56,476 | – |
| 2024 | $257,302 | 355.6% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dental Services | $257,302 | 43.9% |
| 2 | Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment | $122,949 | 21% |
| 3 | Evaluation and Management | $80,725 | 13.8% |
| 4 | National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies | $77,311 | 13.2% |
| 5 | Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies | $45,014 | 7.7% |
| 6 | Medicine Services and Procedures | $2,010 | 0.3% |
| 7 | Radiology Procedures | $490 | 0.1% |
| 8 | Surgery | $9 | <0.1% |
| 9 | Pathology and Laboratory Procedures | $0 | <0.1% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| D0150 | Comprehensve oral evaluation | $67,995 | 26 |
| D0330 | Panoramic image | $66,893 | 18 |
| D0120 | Periodic oral evaluation | $51,240 | 32 |
| D0274 | Bitewings four images | $21,889 | 16 |
| D0272 | Dental bitewings two images | $21,025 | 30 |
| D0140 | Limit oral eval problm focus | $19,144 | 12 |
| D0210 | Intraor comprehensive series | $7,132 | 4 |
| D0220 | Intraoral periapical first | $1,609 | 14 |
| D0230 | Intraoral periapical ea add | $372 | 5 |
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.
