Chiefland Medicaid Evaluation and Management payments total $57,216 in 2024

Health care providers in Chiefland billed Medicaid $57,216 in 2024 for services within the Evaluation and Management category, based on data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 4.6% increase over 2023, when $54,701 in claims were submitted for these services.

Medicaid is a public health insurance program operated by the states and supported jointly by federal and state governments. Serving low-income populations, seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities, Medicaid is one of the biggest segments of the U.S. health care system.

Since Medicaid is taxpayer-funded, shifts in local billing highlight how public health care dollars are distributed throughout a community.

The Evaluation and Management category consists of Medicaid-billed services characterized by the care provided, with standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For the analysis, each billing code was assigned to one service category, using uniform code prefixes and ranges. This allowed the analysis of related services while preventing double counting and preserving ranking accuracy over time.

Spending increased in multiple Medicaid service categories, but Evaluation and Management topped all Medicaid payment categories in Chiefland for 2024.

Statewide, Evaluation and Management was the third highest category in total Medicaid payments in Florida in 2024.

Looking back over the five years prior to 2024, Medicaid payments connected to the Evaluation and Management category in Chiefland climbed by $72,931, a 56% increase. Some years saw accelerated growth, with substantial year-over-year increases occurring in 2021 and 2022.

Payments for Evaluation and Management services were distributed across Chiefland, but most were concentrated in just a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 32626 had the highest Medicaid payments in this category, totaling $57,215. This leading ZIP code accounted for 100% of all related Medicaid payments in Chiefland during the year.

Within Evaluation and Management, Medicaid payments were focused on a small group of billing codes.

To compare, Evaluation and Management Medicaid claims in Chiefland grew by 4.6% from 2023 to 2024, while all Medicaid claim categories in the city rose by 18.2% during the same period.

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

This change reflects approximately 40% growth over just a few years, predominantly due to expanded enrollment and increased service utilization during and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget measures enacted during the Trump administration have featured major proposals to trim federal Medicaid funding and restructure the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is projected to reduce federal Medicaid expenditures by over $1 trillion over 10 years. It introduces changes such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing, likely limiting coverage and funding for some recipients. These adjustments are expected to transfer more costs to states and limit the growth of federal Medicaid contributions, while the program continues serving 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.