Medicaid spending for procedures and professional services in Mound Bayou reaches $23,067 in 2024

Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows that Medicaid providers in Mound Bayou reported $23,067 in claims for Procedures / Professional Services in 2024. This represents a 241.4% rise from 2023, when providers filed $6,756 for the same service category.

Medicaid, operated by the states and financed through both federal and state funding, serves low-income individuals and families, seniors, children and individuals with disabilities, making it a major component of the U.S. health system.

Because Medicaid is funded by taxpayers, local changes in billing volumes reflect how public health resources are distributed across different communities.

The “Procedures / Professional Services” designation includes services as classified by specific HCPCS and CPT codes. For this review, each billing code was assigned a single service category based on standard code prefixes and numeric ranges, keeping service types distinct and preventing duplicate counts, while enabling accurate year-over-year tracking.

Although Medicaid expenditures rose in various categories, Procedures / Professional Services stood as the third highest payment category in Mound Bayou in 2024.

Statewide, this service category was ranked 11th in total Medicaid payments in Mississippi for 2024.

From five years before 2024, Medicaid payments connected to Procedures / Professional Services in Mound Bayou increased by $21,031, an uptick of 1033.2%. Certain periods saw accelerated growth, with significant annual increases observed in 2020 and 2022.

Despite spending for Procedures / Professional Services being dispersed throughout Mound Bayou, the payments were primarily associated with only a few ZIP codes. Specifically, ZIP code 38762 accounted for $23,067 in 2024, representing 100% of these Medicaid payments in the city that year.

Medicaid funding for Procedures / Professional Services was also focused on a small selection of billing codes within the category.

For additional context, Medicaid payments for this service area in Mound Bayou climbed by 241.4% between 2024 and 2023. In comparison, the overall change across all Medicaid claim categories within the city was 47.5% during that period.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports that combined state and federal Medicaid program spending totaled about $871.7 billion during the 2023 fiscal year. This made up roughly 18% of all U.S. health expenditures, a substantial rise from $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This jump represents nearly a 40% increase over several years, mainly attributed to both higher enrolment and elevated service use during and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budgets approved under the Trump administration involved major cuts to federal Medicaid funding and structural changes to the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is projected to reduce federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion in the next ten years and applies measures such as work requirements and stricter cost-sharing. These modifications are expected to increase cost sharing by states and could limit federal Medicaid funding growth, affecting coverage for some beneficiaries, while the program continues to support millions of Americans.

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.