In 2024, Indianola providers billed $93,077 to Medicaid for services categorized under Procedures / Professional Services, as shown by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount reflected a 3.7% increase from 2023, when $89,736 was reported for the same service group.
Medicaid is a state-administered public health insurance system jointly funded by federal and state governments. It serves low-income people and families, seniors, children and individuals with disabilities, ranking as a major component of the U.S. health care landscape. See this explainer for more details.
Since Medicaid funds are supplied by taxpayers, fluctuations in local billing help illustrate shifts in the use of community health care resources.
The Procedures / Professional Services designation covers Medicaid-billed services grouped by care type, applying standard HCPCS and CPT code prefixes and number ranges. This analysis assigned each billing code to a single service group, ensuring comparable statistics across related services while avoiding redundancy and maintaining consistent rankings over time.
Medicaid expenses grew across multiple categories, but Procedures / Professional Services ranked fifth by total amount in Indianola during 2024.
Statewide in Mississippi, Procedures / Professional Services was placed 11th for total Medicaid payments in 2024.
Throughout the five years preceding 2024, Medicaid spending on the Procedures / Professional Services group in Indianola increased by $69,109, or 42.6%. Growth rates accelerated in periods such as 2021 and 2022 with particularly high year-over-year increases.
Although care payments within Procedures / Professional Services occurred throughout Indianola, the majority were in a small number of ZIP codes. For 2024, ZIP code 38751 received $93,076, making up 100% of category payments within the city that year.
Spending in the Procedures / Professional Services category was largely focused on several specific billing codes.
Comparatively, Medicaid payments in Indianola tied to Procedures / Professional Services increased by 3.7% between 2024 and 2023, compared to a citywide rise of 2.6% across all claim categories during the same span.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports that combined federal and state Medicaid spending reached around $871.7 billion in fiscal 2023, representing about 18% of national health costs, up from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This rise marks growth of nearly 40% within several years, primarily driven by widened enrollment and increased utilization tied to the pandemic’s direct and aftermath effects.
Federal budget actions during the Trump administration featured proposals to cut and restructure Medicaid funding at the federal level. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” made law in 2025, is expected to reduce federal Medicaid funding by over $1 trillion over 10 years, with new requirements and higher cost-sharing that may decrease benefits and coverage for some people. These policy changes could shift more responsibility to states, controlling the pace of future Medicaid support even as the program continues serving tens of millions nationally.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $162,185 | -24% |
| 2021 | $183,907 | 13.4% |
| 2022 | $156,292 | -15% |
| 2023 | $89,736 | -42.6% |
| 2024 | $93,076 | 3.7% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies | $6,590,396 | 73.4% |
| 2 | Evaluation and Management | $961,649 | 10.7% |
| 3 | Medicine Services and Procedures | $725,904 | 8.1% |
| 4 | Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) | $372,153 | 4.1% |
| 5 | Procedures / Professional Services | $93,076 | 1% |
| 6 | Vision Services | $87,460 | 1% |
| 7 | Radiology Procedures | $66,287 | 0.7% |
| 8 | Pathology and Laboratory Procedures | $53,954 | 0.6% |
| 9 | Dental Services | $11,986 | 0.1% |
| 10 | Durable Medical Equipment | $6,793 | 0.1% |
| 11 | Medical And Surgical Supplies | $2,796 | <0.1% |
| 12 | Drugs Administered Other than Oral Method | $1,738 | <0.1% |
| 13 | Surgery | $34 | <0.1% |
| 14 | Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment | $0 | <0.1% |
| 14 | Temporary Codes | $0 | <0.1% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| G0378 | Hospital observation per hr | $83,050 | 7 |
| G0299 | Hhs/hospice of rn ea 15 min | $7,300 | 2 |
| G0467 | Fqhc visit, estab pt | $2,725 | 5 |
| G0008 | Admin influenza virus vac | $0 | 1 |
| G0009 | Admin pneumococcal vaccine | $0 | 1 |
| G8397 | Dil macula/fundus exam/w doc | $0 | 1 |
| G8783 | Bp scrn perf rec interval | $0 | 9 |
| G8952 | Pre-htn/htn, no f/u, not gvn | $0 | 2 |
| G9903 | Pt scrn tbco id as non user | $0 | 12 |
| G9905 | No pt tbco scrn rng | $0 | 13 |
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.