Cedar Hill Medicaid medicine service claims rise to $3,237 in 2024

In 2024, providers billing Medicaid in Cedar Hill submitted $3,237 in claims for Medicine Services and Procedures, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. This amount reflects a 106% jump from 2023, when claims totaled $1,571 for those services.

Medicaid is a state-operated health insurance program jointly funded by federal and state governments. It provides health coverage for low-income individuals, families, seniors, children and people with disabilities, and remains one of the largest programs across the U.S. health care system.

Taxpayers fund Medicaid payments, so shifts in local billing help illustrate how public health care funds are used in Cedar Hill.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” grouping includes a range of Medicaid-billed care types, identified by standardized HCPCS and CPT code categories. Analysts assigned each billing code to a single service group using standardized code prefixes and numeric ranges, which keeps related services together and avoids double counting and ranking errors over time.

Medicine Services and Procedures was the third-largest Medicaid spending category in Cedar Hill for 2024, despite increases across several categories.

At the state level, Medicine Services and Procedures ranked seventh in Missouri by Medicaid payment total during 2024.

Between 2020 and 2024, Medicaid payments connected to Medicine Services and Procedures in Cedar Hill grew by $3,237, or 0%. Certain periods—2023 and 2022 notably—saw faster spending increases year over year.

Although Medicaid funds for these services reached several areas of the city, the bulk of payments were made in just a few ZIP codes. ZIP code 63016 led with all $3,237 in Medicaid payments under Medicine Services and Procedures in 2024, accounting for 100% of the category’s total in Cedar Hill that year.

Just a few billing codes accounted for most Medicaid spending within the Medicine Services and Procedures category.

From 2023 to 2024, Medicaid spending for Medicine Services and Procedures in Cedar Hill increased by 106%, compared with a 40.4% change across all Medicaid service categories citywide during the same timeframe.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, federal and state Medicaid spending combined was about $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, making up roughly 18% of total national health expenditures. That amount is a sharp rise from about $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This represents growth of around 40% in just a few years, mostly due to expanded enrollment and greater use of health services during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget measures under the Trump administration have proposed extensive reductions to federal Medicaid funding and program restructuring. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is expected to cut over $1 trillion from federal Medicaid spending during the next decade while introducing policies like work requirements and increased cost-sharing. These changes may reduce coverage and funds for some enrollees, shifting more of the financial responsibility to states even as Medicaid continues to serve millions.

Note: HCPCS codes are listed for reference within each category. Totals and rankings shown are based on standardized service groupings, not on individual billing codes.

Data for this article was sourced from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. The original dataset is available here.