Bronson Medicaid Medicine Services and Procedures payments reach $18,803 in 2024

In 2024, Bronson Medicaid providers billed a total of $18,803 for services falling under the Medicine Services and Procedures category, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represents a 2.3% rise compared with 2023, when claims in this category totaled $18,385.

Medicaid is a state-run public health insurance program funded jointly by the federal and state governments. It provides coverage to low-income people, seniors, children, and those with disabilities, and constitutes a major part of the U.S. health care system.

Since Medicaid payments are financed by taxpayers, shifts in local billings help illustrate how a community utilizes its public health care funding.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” category includes a range of Medicaid-billed services as defined by the type of care, classified through standard HCPCS and CPT code frameworks. For the purpose of this analysis, billing codes were assigned to a specific category using standardized code ranges and prefixes, ensuring similar services were analyzed collectively and avoiding any double counting or misranking over time.

Though Medicaid spending went up in several service areas, Medicine Services and Procedures was the fourth-largest category for total Medicaid outlays in Bronson for 2024.

Statewide, Medicine Services and Procedures ranked as the fifth-largest Medicaid service group by payments in 2024 in Florida.

Over the prior five years, Medicaid spending in Bronson for this category rose by $5,551, or 41.9%. Periods of particularly rapid growth were observed in 2023 and 2022.

Spending for Medicine Services and Procedures was distributed throughout Bronson but was mostly concentrated in just a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 32621 accounted for $18,802 in Medicaid billing for these services. That single ZIP code made up 100% of Medicare payments tied to this category in Bronson for the year.

Most Medicaid payments in the Medicine Services and Procedures category were tied to a relatively small set of billing codes.

Comparing years, payments for this category in Bronson climbed 2.3% from 2023 to 2024, while overall Medicaid claims across all categories in the city saw a 38.6% change in the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined spending from federal and state sources on Medicaid reached about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023. That figure represents about 18% of national health expenditures, up from $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This 40% jump in spending is mostly attributed to greater enrollment and higher health care usage during and after the pandemic period.

Recent federal legislative changes during the Trump administration proposed major reductions to federal Medicaid funding and new program designs. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is estimated to cut more than $1 trillion in federal Medicaid expenditures over the next 10 years, implementing provisions—including work requirements and more cost-sharing—that may decrease both coverage and funding for some in the program. These adjustments are likely to shift greater financial responsibility to states and restrict increases in federal Medicaid support, albeit the program will remain critical for millions nationwide.

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.