Chestnut Ridge Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures jump 199.8% to $152,281 in 2024

Chestnut Ridge Medicaid providers billed $152,281 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 represented a 199.8% rise compared with 2023, when billing for the same category stood at $50,799.

Medicaid is a joint state and federal insurance program funded collaboratively by both levels of government. The program supports low-income individuals, families, seniors, children and people with disabilities, making it a major part of the U.S. health care system.

Trends in Medicaid billing, funded by taxpayers, demonstrate how community health care resources are distributed.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” classification includes a set of services reimbursed by Medicaid, determined by standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this report, service codes were grouped into single categories according to code prefixes and ranges, which groups related care and maintains consistency in rankings without double counting.

While Medicaid expenditures increased in several service types, Medicine Services and Procedures placed fourth in Chestnut Ridge by total Medicaid payouts in 2024.

Statewide, Medicine Services and Procedures was the third leading Medicaid category in New York by payment volume in 2024.

Throughout the five-year period before 2024, Medicaid payments in Chestnut Ridge tied to this category grew by $152,281, marking 0% overall change. The largest increases occurred in certain recent years, with notable year-over-year rises in 2023 and 2022.

These expenditures were distributed across Chestnut Ridge but concentrated in a small group of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 10977 accounted for the full $152,281 in Medicaid payments for the category, making up 100% of the city’s total in that area.

Within the Medicine Services and Procedures group, a select number of billing codes accounted for most Medicaid payments.

For additional context, while Chestnut Ridge saw a 199.8% increase in Medicaid payments for this service category between 2023 and 2024, the citywide rise across all Medicaid claim types for the same period was 18.6%.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported that combined state and federal Medicaid expenditures reached about $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, accounting for 18% of the nation’s total health spending. That figure was a substantial increase from $613.5 billion in 2019 before COVID-19 pandemic policies were implemented.

Overall, those years reflect growth of around 40%, mainly due to increased enrollment and service usage during and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget changes enacted under the Trump administration feature significant reductions and restructuring of Medicaid funding. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid outlays by more than $1 trillion over the next decade. The law also implements work requirements and higher cost-sharing, potentially affecting coverage and funding for some groups. States may bear increased financial responsibility as federal support is restricted even as Medicaid continues to cover 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.