Medicaid bills for Concord’s Medicine Services and Procedures total $7,309,372 in 2024, a 27% rise

Concord Medicaid providers submitted $7,309,372 in claims classified under Medicine Services and Procedures in 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. That amount is up 27% from 2023, when claims for identical services totaled $5,754,002.

Medicaid, a joint federal and state public health insurance program, is funded by both levels of government. It serves low-income people, families, seniors, children and those with disabilities, making it a key part of the U.S. health care landscape.

Because taxpayer funding supports Medicaid, local changes in provider billing directly reflect how community health care dollars are spent.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” designation refers to a set of Medicaid-billed treatments, categorized by care type and referencing standardized HCPCS and CPT codes. Each billing code is assigned to one service group using consistent code prefixes and numeric bands, enabling analysis of related care and supporting accurate annual rankings while avoiding double counting.

While Medicaid spending increased in several areas, Medicine Services and Procedures placed fourth by total Medicaid payments in Concord for 2024.

At the state level in California, Medicine Services and Procedures ranked as the third highest category for total Medicaid spending in 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Concord’s Medicaid payments associated with Medicine Services and Procedures rose $4,707,833, an increase of 181%. Periods such as 2021 and 2023 saw especially strong annual growth within this category.

Although services were delivered citywide, most Medicaid dollars for Medicine Services and Procedures were concentrated in a few ZIP codes. In 2024, top ZIPs included 94520 with $5,641,555, 94518 with $1,134,959, and 94519 with $532,857—all together making up 100% of Concord’s Medicaid spending for this category during the year.

Medicaid payments in the Medicine Services and Procedures group were also focused among a small set of billing codes.

Comparatively, from 2023 to 2024, Concord’s Medicaid Medicine Services and Procedures claim payments increased by 27%. Meanwhile, across all categories in the city, spending went up 7.7% over the same timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total state and federal Medicaid spending reached approximately $871.7 billion for fiscal 2023, or about 18% of all national health expenditures. This figure is a significant jump from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019, ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The change marks about 40% growth over several years, largely driven by expanded enrollment and rising usage during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget laws enacted during the Trump administration proposed sizable federal Medicaid cuts and program restructuring. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion in the coming decade and introduces policies such as work requirements and more cost sharing, potentially reducing coverage or payments for certain enrollees. Such reforms will likely increase state financial responsibility and slow the rate of federal Medicaid funding growth, even as the program continues to cover tens of 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.