Medicaid spending for medicine services in White House up 31.9% in 2024

Providers in White House received $5,145 through Medicaid for services under the Medicine Services and Procedures category in 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This figure represents a 31.9% jump from 2023, when $3,901 was billed for similar services.

Medicaid serves as a public health insurance option supported collectively by state and federal governments. It provides health coverage to low-income residents, children, seniors, and people with disabilities, making it a major component of the nation’s health care framework.

As Medicaid dollars are taxpayer funded, variations in local billing illustrate how community health resources are allocated.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” group includes certain medical services coded by standardized HCPCS and CPT groupings. Each code in the analysis is linked to just one service category through consistent coding prefixes and numbers, so related services are aggregated without duplication to allow accurate ranking comparisons year over year.

Many service categories saw Medicaid spending rise, but for 2024, Medicine Services and Procedures came in fourth in White House for overall Medicaid payments.

Statewide, in Tennessee, Medicine Services and Procedures placed fifth in total Medicaid payments for 2024.

Throughout the five years leading to 2024, White House saw a $4,454 or 645% growth in Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures. Some years experienced rapid spending acceleration, especially in 2023 and 2022.

While distributed around the city, the majority of spending for this service type was located within select ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 37188 generated $5,145 in Medicaid payments for the category. In total, the top 1 ZIP code represented 100% of Medicine Services and Procedures payments in White House that year.

Spending within this group was dominated by a narrow group of billing codes.

From 2023 to 2024, spending in the Medicine Services and Procedures category climbed by 31.9% in White House, surpassing a 28% overall rise across all Medicaid claim categories in the city for the same 12 months.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported combined state and federal Medicaid outlays of about $871.7 billion for fiscal year 2023, comprising about 18% of U.S. health expenses—up sharply from about $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The growth marks an increase of approximately 40% over several years, attributed largely to rising enrollment and greater service utilization amid and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budget laws established during the Trump administration proposed deep reductions to federal Medicaid funding and program restructuring. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is expected to trim federal Medicaid allocations by more than $1 trillion over 10 years and puts forward changes like work requirements and increased cost-sharing, potentially lessening funding or coverage for certain groups. Such legislation is anticipated to increase state financial responsibility while slowing federal Medicaid growth, though the program still serves millions of Americans 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.