Hazlehurst Medicaid spending for national codes category rises to $2,851,134 in 2024

Providers in Hazlehurst submitted $2,851,134 in Medicaid claims for services under the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies category in 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This total represents a 41.1% increase from 2023, when $2,020,596 was billed for the same service group.

Medicaid is a government health insurance program administered by state agencies and financed through a partnership of federal and state funds. It provides coverage for low-income individuals and families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities, making it a major element of the U.S. health care landscape.

Since Medicaid funding is derived from taxpayers, variations in local billing levels reveal how public health resources are distributed within the community.

The “National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies” category includes multiple types of services identified by standardized HCPCS and CPT codes. In this reporting, each code was assigned to a specific service category using distinct code groupings, ensuring comparability and preventing overlap or double counting for accurate long-term analysis.

Spending rose broadly across several Medicaid service categories; however, National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies was the top category by total expenditures in Hazlehurst for 2024.

At the state level, this same category also led Medicaid payment totals in Mississippi in 2024.

Reviewing the five-year span before 2024, Hazlehurst’s Medicaid payments for this category grew by $2,206,389, a 342.2% increase. Periods of rapid growth were observed, especially in 2020 and 2021.

Most spending within this service group in 2024 was centered on a limited number of ZIP codes in Hazlehurst. Of these, 39083 contributed $2,851,133 to the total, meaning that the top ZIP code made up 100% of Medicaid payments for this category in the city that year.

Medicaid payments in the National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies category were also focused within a small set of individual billing codes.

Between 2024 and 2023, Medicaid spending on this category in Hazlehurst climbed by 41.1%, compared to an overall 9.7% increase for all Medicaid claim types across the city in the same timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state contributions to Medicaid totaled roughly $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, representing about 18% of national health care spending—an increase from $613.5 billion in 2019, the period prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This rise amounts to close to 40% growth over just a few years, largely due to increased enrollment and higher utilization during and after the pandemic.

Federal budget measures passed during the Trump administration have included significant proposals to trim federal Medicaid allocations and modify program structure. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is expected to decrease federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over the next decade and brings changes such as work requirements and greater cost-sharing, potentially decreasing coverage and support for certain groups. These adjustments are anticipated to shift more responsibility to states and may restrict future growth of federal Medicaid aid as the program continues to provide for 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.