Crossett Medicaid providers billed $426,028 in 2024 for Medicine Services and Procedures, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database reports. This total represented a 25.6% increase from 2023, when $339,254 in claims were submitted for the same services.
Medicaid is a statewide public health insurance program, funded in partnership by federal and state governments. The program serves low-income people, families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it a major element of the U.S. health care system.
Because funding for Medicaid originates with taxpayers, shifts in local billing indicate how public health care funds are distributed throughout the community.
The “Medicine Services and Procedures” group covers a set of Medicaid-billed health services classified by HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this analysis, each code was assigned to a single service group using consistent prefixes and numeric ranges, letting related services be tracked together while preventing double counting and maintaining rankings from year to year.
Medicine Services and Procedures placed second among Medicaid service categories by overall payments in Crossett in 2024, despite growth across multiple categories.
Throughout Arkansas, Medicine Services and Procedures was also the second-largest Medicaid spending category by total payments in 2024.
Over the five years ending in 2024, Crossett Medicaid outlays for Medicine Services and Procedures rose by $263,836, or 162.7%. Payment growth accelerated in some years, with especially notable increases in 2021 and 2022.
Although services in this category were provided in different neighborhoods, most payments were concentrated in a small set of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 71635 alone accounted for $426,028, totaling 100% of all Medicaid spending for this category in Crossett that year.
Additionally, just a small number of individual billing codes accounted for the majority of Medicaid payments within Medicine Services and Procedures.
By comparison, Crossett Medicaid payments for this category went up by 25.6% from 2023 to 2024, higher than the 12.3% year-over-year change across all claim categories in the city.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, federal and state Medicaid spending totaled roughly $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, which made up about 18% of all U.S. health expenditures—a sharp jump from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 crisis.
This growth represents a nearly 40% increase over several years, primarily due to expanded eligibility and greater use of services during and following the pandemic.
Major federal budget measures during the Trump administration proposed substantial reductions in federal Medicaid funding and program changes. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to lower federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over 10 years, with new requirements like increased cost-sharing and work mandates that may trim both coverage and funding for some. These shifts would push more costs to states and restrict federal Medicaid funding growth, even as the program continues serving tens of millions of Americans.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $162,192 | -44.2% |
| 2021 | $257,006 | 58.5% |
| 2022 | $298,330 | 16.1% |
| 2023 | $339,253 | 13.7% |
| 2024 | $426,028 | 25.6% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies | $650,725 | 32.4% |
| 2 | Medicine Services and Procedures | $426,028 | 21.2% |
| 3 | Radiology Procedures | $225,381 | 11.2% |
| 4 | Pathology and Laboratory Procedures | $221,960 | 11% |
| 5 | Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies | $158,052 | 7.9% |
| 6 | Evaluation and Management | $129,921 | 6.5% |
| 7 | Dental Services | $109,120 | 5.4% |
| 8 | Medical And Surgical Supplies | $46,314 | 2.3% |
| 9 | Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) | $20,518 | 1% |
| 10 | Procedures / Professional Services | $10,842 | 0.5% |
| 11 | Durable Medical Equipment | $5,282 | 0.3% |
| 12 | Surgery | $3,372 | 0.2% |
| 13 | Drugs Administered Other than Oral Method | $1,489 | 0.1% |
| 14 | Administrative, Miscellaneous and Investigational | $185 | <0.1% |
| 15 | Temporary Codes | $0 | <0.1% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90837 | Psytx w pt 60 minutes | $107,048 | 21 |
| 97530 | Therapeutic activities | $89,646 | 21 |
| 96365 | Ther/proph/diag iv inf init | $75,529 | 11 |
| 92507 | Tx sp lang voice comm indiv | $63,866 | 11 |
| 97110 | Therapeutic exercises | $23,067 | 9 |
| 92340 | Fit spectacles monofocal | $18,439 | 15 |
| 90999 | Unlisted dialysis procedure | $18,427 | 7 |
| 96374 | Ther/proph/diag inj iv push | $10,577 | 4 |
| 93005 | Electrocardiogram tracing | $10,384 | 11 |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram report | $3,808 | 12 |
| 97161 | Pt eval low complex 20 min | $2,070 | 3 |
| 97597 | Dbrdmt opn wnd 1st 20 cm/< | $1,629 | 1 |
| 90832 | Psytx w pt 30 minutes | $1,531 | 2 |
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.
