Medicaid outlays for Medicine Services and Procedures climb to $35,663 in Montezuma in 2024

Medicaid providers in Montezuma submitted $35,663 in claims for services under the Medicine Services and Procedures category in 2024, based on figures from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount reflects a 97.5% jump from 2023, when the total for these services was $18,059.

Medicaid operates as a joint federal and state public health insurance program financed by both levels of government. It helps support low-income individuals and families, older adults, children, and people with disabilities, making it a major component of the national health care landscape.

Since Medicaid funding is provided by taxpayers, changes in local billing levels indicate shifts in how public health care resources are distributed within communities.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” category encompasses a specific cluster of Medicaid-billed services identified by the type of care, based on standard HCPCS and CPT code definitions. In this analysis, each code was placed into one service group using consistent code prefixes and ranges, ensuring the grouping of related services and elimination of duplicate counts for accuracy in year-over-year comparisons.

Overall Medicaid spending rose across multiple service groups, but in Montezuma, Medicine Services and Procedures led all categories for total Medicaid payments in 2024.

Statewide, the Medicine Services and Procedures group ranked second by total Medicaid payments in Indiana for 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Montezuma saw Medicaid payments in this category rise by $28,536, translating to a 400.4% increase. Spending growth showed several accelerations, with substantial increases occurring in both 2023 and 2021 compared to the previous years.

Spending in the Medicine Services and Procedures category was distributed throughout Montezuma, though the bulk of payments came from a small group of ZIP codes. During 2024, ZIP code 47862 was responsible for $35,663, accounting for 100% of Medicaid payments for these services in Montezuma during the year.

Within this category, payment totals were heavily concentrated around a handful of billing codes.

To compare, Medicaid payments for these services in Montezuma increased 97.5% from 2023 to 2024, mirroring a 97.5% shift seen across all Medicaid claim types in the city over the same period.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data show combined state and federal Medicaid outlays were approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, or about 18% of all national health expenditures. This figure is up from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019, before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This growth—around 40%—occurred over only a few years, propelled in large part by increased enrollment and greater utilization during and after the pandemic.

Recently enacted federal budget measures under the Trump administration have introduced significant proposals to reduce the federal contribution to Medicaid and modify the program’s structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which became law in 2025, is projected to slash more than $1 trillion from federal Medicaid spending over 10 years. The legislation includes provisions like work requirements and higher cost-sharing, which could impact coverage and funding for some beneficiaries. As a result, the law is expected to shift a greater share of costs to states and limit growth in federal Medicaid support, despite the program’s continued large enrollment.

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.