Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Hackett jump 55% to $118,612 in 2024

In 2024, Hackett Medicaid providers billed $118,612 for services within the Medicine Services and Procedures category, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database reports. This represents a 54.8% increase from 2023, when billings for these services totaled $76,647.

Medicaid operates as a public health coverage program overseen by states and financed in partnership with federal and state governments. It provides health insurance for individuals and families with low incomes, children, seniors, and people with disabilities, making it among the biggest healthcare programs in the United States.

Public funding supports Medicaid, so variations in local payment levels indicate shifts in community healthcare spending.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” category includes a set of Medicaid-billed services identified by care type and standardized using HCPCS and CPT code groupings. This report assigned each billing code to a single category, based on consistent prefixes and numeric ranges, to keep related services grouped for analysis and prevent duplicate counting or misrankings over time.

Medicine Services and Procedures led all Medicaid service categories in Hackett by total payments in 2024, as spending grew across multiple service areas.

Statewide, the Medicine Services and Procedures category placed second among Medicaid service categories for total payments in Arkansas in 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Medicaid payments connected to Medicine Services and Procedures in Hackett grew by $114,852, or 3,054.3%. Certain years, such as 2021 and 2022, saw particularly strong year-over-year increases in spending.

While these payments supported care throughout Hackett, most funding was claimed in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 72937 accounted for $118,611 of Medicaid payments in the Medicine Services and Procedures category. Collectively, the top 1 ZIP codes represented 100% of all related Medicaid payments in Hackett for the year.

Payments within this category were also centered around a few individual billing codes.

Medicaid payments in Hackett for the Medicine Services and Procedures category climbed by 54.8% from 2023 to 2024, compared to a 40% change across all Medicaid claim categories in the city over that period.

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

This represents an increase of around 40% over several years, largely due to higher enrollment and greater service use during and after the pandemic period.

Recent federal budget bills passed during the Trump administration have brought forward major proposals to cut federal Medicaid funding and change the way the program operates. Notably, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is forecast to reduce federal Medicaid funding by more than $1 trillion over 10 years, adding work requirements and higher cost-sharing that could limit both coverage and finances for some beneficiaries. These revisions are expected to increase fiscal responsibility for states and cap federal contribution growth, even as Medicaid continues serving tens of 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.