Medicaid Medicine Services and Procedures payments in Pearcy rise to $172,500 in 2024

Pearcy Medicaid providers billed $172,500 for Medicine Services and Procedures in 2024, based on data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount represents a 38.8% rise over 2023, when providers submitted $124,302 in claims for this service group.

Medicaid is a state-managed public health insurance program that receives joint funding from the federal government and states. It serves low-income families and individuals, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it a key component of the U.S. health care system.

Because these Medicaid payments are drawn from public funds, shifts in local billing details show how health care dollars are used in each community.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” group includes a range of Medicaid-billed medical services defined by standardized CPT and HCPCS coding. For this review, analysts assigned each billing code to one category using systematic numeric prefixes and ranges, enabling analysis of related services while avoiding double counting and maintaining accurate service rankings over time.

In 2024, Medicine Services and Procedures accounted for the highest total Medicaid payments of any service category in Pearcy, even as Medicaid spending rose in several other service categories.

Statewide, this category ranked second in Arkansas by total Medicaid payments in 2024.

Between 2019 and 2024, Pearcy’s Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures grew by $139,362, marking a 420.5% increase. There were periods of particularly rapid growth, notably with substantial annual increases in 2020 and 2023.

While Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures were distributed across Pearcy, most payments in 2024 came from few ZIP codes. The 71964 ZIP code posted $172,500 in claims, representing 100% of Medicaid payments in this category for Pearcy in that year.

Within this services category, a small group of billing codes received the majority of Medicaid payments.

Looking at the year-over-year comparison, Medicine Services and Procedures Medicaid payments in Pearcy rose by 38.8% from 2023 to 2024; across all claim categories in the city, the change was 22.9% during the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid expenditures totaled about $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, which made up roughly 18% of total U.S. health spending. This is a significant jump from around $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This growth equates to an increase of approximately 40% over a few years, fueled by expanding enrollment and higher health service usage during and following the pandemic period.

Federal budget actions during the Trump administration introduced substantial measures aimed at reducing Medicaid funding and altering the program. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to cut more than $1 trillion from federal Medicaid spending over 10 years and implements policies like work requirements and increased cost-sharing. These initiatives may reduce coverage and funding for some program participants and are anticipated to put more financial responsibility on states while restricting federal Medicaid growth, even as the program continues to assist 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.