Bude Medicaid spending on Medicine Services and Procedures climbs 171% to $266 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Bude submitted $266 in claims for Medicine Services and Procedures, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. This represented a 171.4% rise from 2023, when claims for the same services totaled $98.

Medicaid serves as a publicly funded health insurance program jointly paid by federal and state governments, covering low-income households, children, seniors, and those with disabilities. It is among the largest components of the national health care system.

Because public dollars fund Medicaid payments, fluctuations in local billing levels reflect the way health care funding is distributed within the community.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” classification refers to an array of Medicaid-billed care grouped by standardized HCPCS and CPT code designations. In this analysis, billing codes were assigned to a single service category by common code prefixes and number ranges, ensuring consistent analysis, accurate comparison, and avoidance of duplicate counts over time.

The Medicine Services and Procedures category was the second-highest in total Medicaid payments for Bude in 2024, though multiple categories saw expanded spending during the year.

Across Mississippi, Medicine Services and Procedures ranked fourth by total Medicaid payments in 2024.

From five years prior to 2024, Bude saw an $1,281 increase, or 82.8%, in Medicaid payments associated with Medicine Services and Procedures. Certain periods saw accelerated growth, with especially marked annual increases recorded in 2021 and 2022.

While spending on Medicine Services and Procedures touched areas across Bude, payment activity was heavily concentrated in a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 39630 accounted for all $266 of those payments, representing 100% of Medicaid spending in this service category for the city that year.

Spending within Medicine Services and Procedures was focused on a select set of individual billing codes within the overall category.

Between 2024 and 2023, Bude’s Medicaid payments tied to Medicine Services and Procedures increased 171.4%. Across all Medicaid claim categories in the city for the same period, the change was 36.6%.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data shows that federal and state Medicaid expenditures reached about $871.7 billion in the 2023 fiscal year. This was approximately 18% of all national health expenditures and reflects a steep rise from $613.5 billion in 2019, the year before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This increase amounts to growth of roughly 40% over just a few years, largely driven by higher enrollment and increased utilization amid and following the pandemic period.

Federal budget measures enacted during the Trump administration introduced substantial proposals to decrease federal Medicaid funding and alter the program’s structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is projected to cut more than $1 trillion in federal Medicaid support in the next 10 years, adding requirements such as work obligations and increased cost-sharing that could reduce coverage for certain groups. These provisions are expected to transfer added costs to states while curbing federal support for Medicaid, even as millions of Americans remain enrolled.

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.