{
  "meta": {
    "api_version": "v1",
    "edition": "2026.1",
    "generated_at": "2026-09-14T16:02:08.283Z",
    "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
    "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "attribution_required": true,
    "attribution": "Real Dental Costs — https://realdentalcosts.com",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20531728",
    "methodology": "https://realdentalcosts.com/en/methodology/",
    "docs": "https://realdentalcosts.com/en/api/",
    "disclaimer": "Independent pricing and market research. NOT medical, dental or insurance advice."
  },
  "schema_version": 1,
  "updated": "2026-09-01",
  "note": "Registry of every price/market data source used or evaluated by Real Dental Costs. `status`: public | internal | licensed | dua_required | collected_not_released. `price_type` follows lib/provenance.ts. Feeds /en/methodology/, the API `provenance` blocks and any future read-only wrapper.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "rdc_observed_implant_2026",
      "name": "Real Dental Costs observed single-implant series (51 state markets)",
      "publisher": "Real Dental Costs Data & Research Team",
      "price_type": "observed_market",
      "geo_level": "state",
      "years": "2025-2026",
      "status": "public",
      "license": "CC BY 4.0",
      "republication_rights": "open with attribution",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-23",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20531728",
      "notes": "Own observed cash-price series; validated against ASQ360 (Spearman 0.945). Basis of the Restorative Cost Index."
    },
    {
      "id": "rdc_real_quotes_index",
      "name": "Real Quotes Index (owner-submitted itemised treatment plans)",
      "publisher": "Real Dental Costs Data & Research Team",
      "price_type": "observed_quotes",
      "geo_level": "zip5",
      "years": "2026-",
      "status": "internal",
      "license": "CC BY 4.0 (aggregates only)",
      "republication_rights": "aggregates only; no individual quote republished",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-23",
      "url": "https://realdentalcosts.com/en/quote-check/",
      "notes": "9 complete quotes at 2026-08-22; not yet used in API payloads (recalibrate confidence formula past 100 quotes)."
    },
    {
      "id": "rdc_national_procedure_cost_2026",
      "name": "US dental procedure cost 2026 (national ranges, 12 procedures)",
      "publisher": "Real Dental Costs Data & Research Team",
      "price_type": "estimated_index",
      "geo_level": "national",
      "years": "2024-2026",
      "status": "public",
      "license": "CC BY 4.0",
      "republication_rights": "open with attribution",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-23",
      "url": "https://realdentalcosts.com/data/us-dental-procedure-cost-2026.csv",
      "notes": "National ranges compiled from published payer and provider fee data; state values for estimated series = national × Restorative Cost Index (modelled)."
    },
    {
      "id": "asq360_carecredit_2023_2024",
      "name": "ASQ360°/CareCredit Average Procedural Cost Study 2023-2024",
      "publisher": "ASQ360° for CareCredit (Synchrony)",
      "price_type": "observed_market",
      "geo_level": "state",
      "years": "2023-2024",
      "status": "public",
      "license": "published study; cited with attribution",
      "republication_rights": "state averages cited with attribution; no bulk redistribution of the source tables",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-23",
      "url": "https://www.carecredit.com/well-u/health-wellness/dental-procedure-costs/",
      "notes": "Source of the crown / veneer / braces / denture state averages."
    },
    {
      "id": "hhs_tmsis_medicaid_provider_spending_2026_02_09",
      "name": "Medicaid Provider Spending by HCPCS (T-MSIS), v2026-02-09",
      "publisher": "U.S. Department of Health and Human Services / CMS",
      "price_type": "medicaid_paid",
      "geo_level": "zip5",
      "years": "2018-2024 (2024 preliminary)",
      "status": "public",
      "license": "U.S. federal government work (17 U.S.C. §105), no licence stated — not CC0",
      "republication_rights": "open; attribution by courtesy; cells already suppressed (<12 lines or <12 patients)",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-22",
      "url": "https://opendata.hhs.gov/datasets/medicaid-provider-spending/",
      "notes": "238,015,729 rows, 7 columns (billing NPI, servicing NPI, HCPCS, month, patients, claim lines, paid). No state column: NPI geolocated with NPPES. Dental subset = 25.3M cells, 464 CDT codes, $47.6B paid. Paid ≠ allowed ≠ charge; managed-care encounters may carry nominal amounts. CDT descriptors are ADA copyright: codes cited by number with our own labels."
    },
    {
      "id": "nppes_2026_08",
      "name": "NPPES NPI Registry, August 2026 data dissemination",
      "publisher": "CMS",
      "price_type": "official_fee",
      "geo_level": "zip5",
      "years": "2026-08",
      "status": "public",
      "license": "public domain",
      "republication_rights": "open",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-22",
      "url": "https://download.cms.gov/nppes/NPI_Files.html",
      "notes": "Used only for provider location/taxonomy/name (no prices). Current practice address, not historical."
    },
    {
      "id": "hrsa_hpsa_2026_07_30",
      "name": "HRSA Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (snapshot 2026-07-30)",
      "publisher": "HRSA",
      "price_type": "official_fee",
      "geo_level": "zip5",
      "years": "2026",
      "status": "public",
      "license": "public domain",
      "republication_rights": "open",
      "last_checked": "2026-07-30",
      "url": "https://data.hrsa.gov/data/download",
      "notes": "Dental Deserts Atlas input (no prices)."
    },
    {
      "id": "acs_b19013_2024",
      "name": "ACS 5-year B19013 median household income by county (2024 release)",
      "publisher": "U.S. Census Bureau",
      "price_type": "official_fee",
      "geo_level": "zip3",
      "years": "2019-2023",
      "status": "public",
      "license": "public domain",
      "republication_rights": "open",
      "last_checked": "2026-07-30",
      "url": "https://data.census.gov/",
      "notes": "Dental Deserts Atlas input (no prices)."
    },
    {
      "id": "cdcp_fee_schedules",
      "name": "Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP) dental benefits grids",
      "publisher": "Health Canada / Sun Life",
      "price_type": "official_fee",
      "geo_level": "state",
      "years": "2024-2026",
      "status": "public",
      "license": "Government of Canada terms",
      "republication_rights": "open with attribution",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-03",
      "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/dental/dental-care-plan.html",
      "notes": "Official fee schedule by province (Canada pages only)."
    },
    {
      "id": "co_apcd_civhc",
      "name": "Colorado All-Payer Claims Database (CIVHC) — commercial dental claims",
      "publisher": "CIVHC",
      "price_type": "commercial_allowed",
      "geo_level": "zip3",
      "years": "2013-",
      "status": "licensed",
      "license": "DUA required; tariff unpublished",
      "republication_rights": "to be confirmed in writing (pre-evaluation email sent 2026-08-22)",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-22",
      "url": "https://civhc.org/get-data/licensed-data/",
      "notes": "Purchase only if DUA allows aggregated republication (CDT × ZIP-3 × year) and cost ≤ $3,000."
    },
    {
      "id": "ga_apcd",
      "name": "Georgia APCD — dental claims (non-public)",
      "publisher": "Georgia OHSC / GTRI",
      "price_type": "commercial_allowed",
      "geo_level": "zip3",
      "years": "2018-",
      "status": "dua_required",
      "license": "DUA + fees ($300 application; aggregate data set $2,500-20,000)",
      "republication_rights": "unknown; 0 for-profit requests approved to date",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-22",
      "url": "https://apcd.georgia.gov/data-reports/non-public-data",
      "notes": "NO-GO purchase; pre-evaluation email sent 2026-08-22."
    },
    {
      "id": "ca_ny_ct_apcd",
      "name": "California HPD / New York APD / Connecticut APCD — dental claims",
      "publisher": "HCAI (CA), NYS DOH (NY), OHS (CT)",
      "price_type": "commercial_allowed",
      "geo_level": "zip3",
      "years": "varies",
      "status": "collected_not_released",
      "license": "n/a",
      "republication_rights": "n/a",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-22",
      "url": "https://hcai.ca.gov/data/healthcare-payments-data-program/",
      "notes": "Dental claims collected but no public dental release usable for price benchmarks."
    },
    {
      "id": "bls_cpi_dental",
      "name": "BLS CPI-U Dental services (CUSR0000SEMC01)",
      "publisher": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics",
      "price_type": "official_fee",
      "geo_level": "national",
      "years": "1947-",
      "status": "public",
      "license": "public domain",
      "republication_rights": "open",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-23",
      "url": "https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SEMC01",
      "notes": "Inflation context only; not a price level."
    },
    {
      "id": "adi_chain_crawl_2026_08",
      "name": "Affordable Dentures & Implants office pages (368 offices, crawled 2026-08-22)",
      "publisher": "Affordable Dentures & Implants (published 'starting at' prices)",
      "price_type": "chain_list_price",
      "geo_level": "zip5",
      "years": "2026",
      "status": "public",
      "license": "published list prices, cited with attribution",
      "republication_rights": "aggregates and cited minimums",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-22",
      "url": "https://realdentalcosts.com/api/v1/chains/affordable-dentures-implants.json",
      "notes": "scripts/gen_chain_adi.mjs."
    },
    {
      "id": "aspen_published_schedule",
      "name": "Aspen Dental published savings-plan fee schedule",
      "publisher": "Aspen Dental",
      "price_type": "chain_list_price",
      "geo_level": "national",
      "years": "2026",
      "status": "public",
      "license": "published list prices, cited with attribution",
      "republication_rights": "cited figures",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-22",
      "url": "https://www.aspendental.com/",
      "notes": "lib/savingsPlan2026.ts."
    },
    {
      "id": "ahrq_meps_hc256_2024",
      "name": "AHRQ MEPS 2024 Full Year Consolidated Data File (HC-256) + HC-251 (2023)",
      "publisher": "Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)",
      "price_type": "survey_expenditure",
      "geo_level": "national",
      "years": "2023-2024",
      "status": "public",
      "license": "Public domain (US federal PUF)",
      "republication_rights": "open",
      "last_checked": "2026-09-01",
      "url": "https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/download_data_files_detail.jsp?cboPufNumber=HC-256",
      "notes": "Released 2026-08-28. Person-level weighted dental expenditures (DVTEXP24), out-of-pocket (DVTSLF24), charges (DVTTCH24) and visits (DVTOT24). Used as macro validation layer for spending and OOP burden - NOT per-procedure prices. Exposed at /api/v1/meps/national.json."
    }
  ]
}