Medicaid spending on medicine services and procedures climbs to $6,844 in Crescent City for 2024

In 2024, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database show that Medicaid providers in Crescent City submitted $6,844 in bills for Medicine Services and Procedures. This figure represents a 254.1% increase over 2023, when billing for this service category totaled $1,933.

Medicaid, the public health insurance initiative overseen by states and funded through both federal and state contributions, delivers coverage for low-income individuals, families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, establishing it as a major component of the national health care system.

Because taxpayer dollars fund Medicaid expenditures, adjustments in local billing can illustrate how public health care resources are distributed within a community.

The Medicine Services and Procedures category includes a set of Medicaid-billed services organized by type of care, guided by standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this analysis, billing codes were attributed to specific service categories based on uniform code prefixes and numeric ranges, supporting analysis of similar services without double counting and ensuring consistent rankings over multiple years.

Spending on Medicine Services and Procedures was among the largest Medicaid expense categories in Crescent City for 2024, ranking second by total payments.

Statewide in Florida, this category placed fifth in Medicaid payments by total amount in 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Medicaid payments linked to Medicine Services and Procedures in Crescent City grew by $90,470, a 93% rise. Certain periods, such as 2023 and 2020, saw particularly notable year-over-year spending increases.

Although payments for Medicine Services and Procedures occurred throughout the city, the majority was concentrated in a few ZIP codes. In 2024, code 32112 saw the most activity, comprising all $6,844 of Medicaid payments in this service category for Crescent City that year.

Most Medicaid dollars in the Medicine Services and Procedures classification came from just a handful of billing codes.

To provide context, the 254.1% jump in Crescent City’s Medicine Services and Procedures payments from 2023 to 2024 far surpassed the citywide increase of 24.7% seen across all Medicaid claim types in the same span.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid spending reached about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, accounting for roughly 18% of total national health expenditures, up sharply from about $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The increase represents growth of roughly 40% in just a few years, driven largely by expanded enrollment and higher utilization during and after the pandemic period.

Recent federal budget legislation under the Trump administration has included significant proposals to reduce federal Medicaid funding and restructure the program. For example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is projected to cut over $1 trillion in federal Medicaid spending over the next decade and introduces policies such as work requirements and increased cost-sharing that could reduce coverage and funding for some beneficiaries. These changes are expected to shift more costs to states and limit the growth of federal Medicaid support, even as the program continues to serve tens of millions of Americans.

Note: HCPCS codes are shown for context within the category. Category totals and rankings in this article are based on standardized service groupings rather than individual billing codes.

Information in this article was obtained from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. The source data can be found here.