Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures surge to $154,653 in Highland for 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Highland logged $154,653 in services billed under the Medicine Services and Procedures classification, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represented a 382.7% climb from 2023, when $32,037 in claims were submitted for these services.

Medicaid is operated by individual states and funded by both federal and state governments. The program serves low-income residents, families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities, making it a major part of the nation’s health care landscape.

Because Medicaid spending is sourced from taxpayer funds, shifts in local billing activity highlight the distribution of health care dollars within the community.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” grouping refers to a set of Medicaid-billed services categorized by the nature of care, anchored to standard HCPCS and CPT code blocks. For this report, each billing code was mapped to an exclusive service type using uniform code structures and number groupings, ensuring comparable services could be tracked together without overlapping, and enabling accurate rankings over time.

While total Medicaid spending increased across several service groupings, Medicine Services and Procedures was the top billing category in Highland for 2024 by payment totals.

For all of Utah, Medicine Services and Procedures also placed first in statewide payment totals in 2024.

Over the five years ahead of 2024, Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Highland grew by $102,656, equal to 197.4%. Some years saw especially strong increases, with significant annual jumps noted in 2022 and again in 2022.

Although such spending occurred throughout Highland, payments were particularly concentrated in certain ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 84003 registered $154,652 in Medicaid claims for Medicine Services and Procedures. Collectively, the top 1 ZIP codes comprised 100% of all Medicaid payments for this category in Highland that year.

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

Between 2024 and 2023, Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Highland rose 382.7%, while payments across all service categories in the city were up 74.9% for the same interval.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid spending was about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023—comprising roughly 18% of national health spending—up considerably from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the pandemic period.

That increase marks about 40% growth across several years, fueled mostly by rising enrollment and increased service use during and after the pandemic.

Recent legislation under the Trump administration includes several major initiatives to scale back federal Medicaid dollars and restructure the program. For instance, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is anticipated to cut over $1 trillion from federal Medicaid spending in the coming decade, implementing measures such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing that may reduce funding and coverage for some members. These policy shifts are likely to increase cost burdens for states and curb growth in federal support, while 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.