Medicaid spending for Ambulance and Other Transport Services increases 5.5% in Marianna in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Marianna billed $237,757 for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies, based on information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This total represents a 5.5% rise from 2023, when local providers generated $225,317 in claims for the same services.

Medicaid, a state-administered health insurance program funded in partnership by federal and state governments, covers people with low incomes, older adults, children and people with disabilities. This program is among the largest payers in the U.S. health system.

Because taxpayer contributions support Medicaid payments, variations in local billing help illustrate how health care funding is distributed in each community.

The “Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies” group contains Medicaid-billed services categorized by care type, with classification determined by standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this report, each separate billing code was attributed to a single service type using methodical code prefixes and ranges, allowing related services to be tracked together while preventing double counting and maintaining precise rankings over years.

Medicaid spending rose in several service categories, but in Marianna, Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies was the fourth highest by total Medicaid payments in 2024.

Statewide in Arkansas, Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies was the seventh largest Medicaid payments category in 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Marianna’s Medicaid payments for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies grew by $200,145, up 532.1%. Growth accelerated during select periods, with strong year-over-year gains noted in 2022 and 2023.

Although these services were accessed throughout the city, Medicaid spending for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies was focused in a small set of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 72360 represented $237,757 in payments, making up 100% of Medicaid payments in Marianna for this service group that year.

Concentration of Medicaid payments was also found within just a few individual billing codes in the Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies group.

For reference, Marianna saw Medicaid payments for Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies rise by 5.5% from 2023 to 2024, while Medicaid payments across all service categories grew 5.7% in the city during that period.

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

This amounts to approximately 40% growth in only a few years, with expanded enrollment and increased utilization during and after the pandemic as primary drivers.

Federal budget measures passed under the Trump administration included major proposals targeting reductions in Medicaid funding and program restructuring. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” adopted in 2025, is predicted to reduce federal Medicaid payments by more than $1 trillion over 10 years and introduces requirements such as work conditions and higher cost-sharing, potentially decreasing coverage and allocations for certain beneficiaries. As a result, these changes could shift additional costs to states while capping the pace of federal Medicaid growth, though the program continues to support tens of millions of Americans.

Note: HCPCS codes are listed to provide context for this service category. In this analysis, category totals and rankings reflect standardized groupings of services, not single billing codes.

Information in this story comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. Source data is available here.