Vicksburg Medicaid providers submitted $329,034 in claims for services under the Procedures / Professional Services category in 2024, figures from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database show. This represented a 15.3% rise compared with 2023, when $285,272 was claimed for these services.
Medicaid, a public health insurance initiative run by states and co-funded by federal and state governments, offers coverage to low-income individuals and families, seniors, children and people with disabilities, making it a key part of the U.S. health care landscape.
Because Medicaid relies on taxpayer funding, fluctuations in local billing reflect how community resources for public health care are expended.
The “Procedures / Professional Services” category comprises Medicaid-billed services grouped by care type, defined by standard HCPCS and CPT code designations. For this analysis, billing codes were consistently assigned to specific categories, based on code prefixes and number ranges, ensuring similarly classified services were aggregated without duplication and accurately ranked over time.
Though Medicaid spending rose in multiple service groups, Procedures / Professional Services held the seventh spot in total Medicaid payments for Vicksburg in 2024.
Statewide, Procedures / Professional Services was the 11th-largest Medicaid payment category in Mississippi in 2024.
Across the five years leading into 2024, Vicksburg saw Medicaid payments within Procedures / Professional Services increase by $31,091, or 10.4%. Spending accelerated during certain periods, including significant jumps reported in 2020 and 2021.
While funding for care in this category was spread across Vicksburg, payments were primarily focused in only a few ZIP codes. In 2024, payments tied to Procedures / Professional Services totaled $305,599 in 39180 and $23,435 in 39183, with these 2 ZIP codes making up all Medicaid payments for this category throughout the city over the year.
Within Procedures / Professional Services, most Medicaid payments centered around a small number of specific billing codes.
Between 2023 and 2024, Medicaid payments for Procedures / Professional Services increased 15.3% in Vicksburg. For context, payments for all claims across categories in the city grew 11% over the same period.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total Medicaid spending from state and federal sources was about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, or roughly 18% of total U.S. health care expenditures—significantly higher than the approximately $613.5 billion recorded in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The increase represents nearly 40% growth in a few years, mostly driven by growth in enrollment and greater usage during and following the pandemic.
Recent federal budget legislation under President Trump introduced major proposals for reducing Medicaid funding and modifying the program structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed into law in 2025, is set to reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years and brings in provisions such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing, which may lessen coverage and funding for some recipients. These policy changes are expected to shift a greater burden to state governments and restrict federal Medicaid support growth, even as the program continues covering millions of Americans.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $297,942 | 80.9% |
| 2021 | $493,838 | 65.7% |
| 2022 | $461,200 | -6.6% |
| 2023 | $285,271 | -38.1% |
| 2024 | $329,034 | 15.3% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evaluation and Management | $6,458,621 | 32% |
| 2 | Medicine Services and Procedures | $4,422,677 | 21.9% |
| 3 | National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies | $3,839,239 | 19.1% |
| 4 | Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment | $3,317,682 | 16.5% |
| 5 | Pathology and Laboratory Procedures | $554,643 | 2.8% |
| 6 | Radiology Procedures | $364,847 | 1.8% |
| 7 | Procedures / Professional Services | $329,034 | 1.6% |
| 8 | Ambulance and Other Transport Services and Supplies | $254,261 | 1.3% |
| 9 | Dental Services | $252,729 | 1.3% |
| 10 | Surgery | $109,403 | 0.5% |
| 11 | Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) | $92,970 | 0.5% |
| 12 | Durable Medical Equipment | $69,496 | 0.3% |
| 13 | Vision Services | $47,930 | 0.2% |
| 14 | Medical And Surgical Supplies | $35,033 | 0.2% |
| 15 | Durable medical equipment (DME) Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) | $2,938 | <0.1% |
| 16 | Drugs Administered Other than Oral Method | $1,706 | <0.1% |
| 17 | Temporary Codes | $14 | <0.1% |
| 18 | Administrative, Miscellaneous and Investigational | $0 | <0.1% |
| 18 | Outpatient PPS | $0 | <0.1% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| G0127 | Trim nail(s) | $203,831 | 27 |
| G2087 | Off base opioid tx, 60 m | $88,965 | 16 |
| G0378 | Hospital observation per hr | $23,213 | 4 |
| G0480 | Drug test def 1-7 classes | $9,358 | 7 |
| G0481 | Drug test def 8-14 classes | $1,691 | 1 |
| G0467 | Fqhc visit, estab pt | $1,172 | 7 |
| G2025 | Dis site tele svcs rhc/fqhc | $484 | 1 |
| G2211 | Complex e/m visit add on | $281 | 10 |
| G0283 | Elec stim other than wound | $35 | 1 |
| G0008 | Admin influenza virus vac | $0 | 1 |
| G0306 | Cbc/diffwbc w/o platelet | $0 | 4 |
| G8417 | Calc bmi abv up param f/u | $0 | 12 |
| G8420 | Calc bmi norm parameters | $0 | 12 |
| G8752 | Sys bp less 140 | $0 | 15 |
| G8754 | Dias bp less 90 | $0 | 16 |
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.