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The whole processed dataset, free to download and reuse with attribution. If you think a figure here is wrong, this is how you check it.

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What is in the file

ColumnMeaning
levelnational, state or city
state / cityLocation, blank at national level
codeDental procedure code used as the join key
treatmentOur plain-language name for the procedure
n_practicesDistinct provider groups behind the figure
p25 / median / p75 / p90Observed negotiated percentiles, USD
basisAlways negotiated_in_network — never a cash price

Terms

Published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence: use it commercially or otherwise, but credit the source and keep the negotiated-versus-cash distinction intact if you republish. Misrepresenting negotiated rates as cash prices is the specific error this dataset exists to avoid.

Underlying source files are public and listed on the sources page. Procedure code numbers are used as factual identifiers only; no code-set descriptor text is reproduced here.

How the data was built →