A study was conducted to classify dental providers into standard rendering providers and safety net clinic providers using machine learning models.
Feature ranking methods were used to identify critical predictors, with treatment-related metrics being identified as the top-ranked features.
Twelve machine learning models were evaluated, with Neural Network achieving the highest accuracy of 94.1% followed by Gradient Boosting and Random Forest.
The study emphasizes the importance of feature selection in improving model efficiency and accuracy, especially in imbalanced healthcare datasets.