2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

Health Care Access

Do you have any kind of insurance coverage that pays for some or all of your routine dental care
including dental insurance prepaid plans such as HMOs or government plans such as Medicaid?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,508 2,339 69.1 67.3-70.9 1,169 30.9 29.1-32.7
Medicaid Region 3 687 453 68.4 64.1-72.3 234 31.6 27.7-35.9
GENDER
Male 313 189 62.8 56.4-68.7 124 37.2 31.3-43.6
Female 374 264 73.4 67.5-78.5 110 26.6 21.5-32.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 390 282 72.8 67.2-77.8 108 27.2 22.2-32.8
Non-Hispanic Black 143 115 78.0 68.4-85.3 28 22.0 14.7-31.6
Other 150 55 41.3 32.2-51.1 95 58.7 48.9-67.8
AGE
18-44 251 160 68.6 62.0-74.6 91 31.4 25.4-38.0
45-64 239 163 69.6 62.2-76.1 76 30.4 23.9-37.8
65+ 181 117 65.8 56.2-74.3 64 34.2 25.7-43.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 209 105 57.6 49.4-65.4 104 42.4 34.6-50.6
Some Post-H.S. 180 123 70.8 62.6-77.8 57 29.2 22.2-37.4
College Graduate 296 225 78.3 72.7-83.1 71 21.7 16.9-27.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 192 99 55.2 46.5-63.6 93 44.8 36.4-53.5
$50,000+ 319 247 79.3 73.9-83.8 72 20.7 16.2-26.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 171 106 63.9 54.5-72.4 65 36.1 27.6-45.5

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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