2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 457 306 70.7 65.6-75.2 151 29.3 24.8-34.4
GENDER
Male 205 149 74.6 67.4-80.7 56 25.4 19.3-32.6
Female 252 157 67.3 60.1-73.8 95 32.7 26.2-39.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 273 190 73.1 67.0-78.5 83 26.9 21.5-33.0
Non-Hispanic Black 88 73 81.7 69.7-89.7 15 18.3 10.3-30.3
Other 89 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 154 107 73.8 65.3-80.8 47 26.2 19.2-34.7
45-64 152 103 70.7 61.7-78.3 49 29.3 21.7-38.3
65+ 146 92 64.8 54.9-73.5 54 35.2 26.5-45.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 159 88 63.5 54.7-71.5 71 36.5 28.5-45.3
Some Post-H.S. 129 90 73.2 63.9-80.9 39 26.8 19.1-36.1
College Graduate 168 128 80.7 73.7-86.1 40 19.3 13.9-26.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 141 77 56.8 47.0-66.0 64 43.2 34.0-53.0
$50,000+ 202 156 80.4 73.7-85.7 46 19.6 14.3-26.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 111 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 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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