Dental services spending U.S. by payer 2014-2020

In 2020, nearly 60 billion U.S. dollars were paid by private health insurances for dental services in the United States. This statistic describes the spending for dental services in the United States from 2014 to 2020, sorted by payer

Spending for dental services in the United States from 2014 to 2020, by payer (in billion U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	2014	2016	2018	2020
Private health insurance	54.1	57.7	62.2	59.7
Out-of-pocket	45.7	49.9	54.9	53.2
Other third-party payers*	0.5	0.5	0.6	10.5
Medicare	0.4	0.5	1.2	2.6
Medicaid	10.1	12.1	12.8	12.6
Other public health insurance	2.8	3.6	4	3.8

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Release date

October 2022

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2014 to 2020

Supplementary notes

This statistic was assembled from several editions of the CHCA report.
Other public insurance includes Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs health care and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Source uses other health insurance programs.
Other third-party payers includes worksite health care, Indian Health Services, workers’ compensation, Maternal and Child Health, and vocational rehabilitation.
Out-of-pocket includes consumer spending on copays, deductibles, and goods and care not covered by insurance; it does not include premiums
* In 2020 this category was changed from "Other payers" to "Other third-party payers".

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