Greensboro Medicaid medicine services payments climb to $909 in 2024

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Greensboro billed $909 for Medicine Services and Procedures, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This represents a 46.8% increase from 2023, when claims for these services totaled $619.

Medicaid is a public health insurance program administered by states and funded jointly by the federal and state governments. The program serves low-income people and families, seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities, making it a key component of the U.S. health care system.

Since Medicaid payments are funded by taxpayers, fluctuations in local billing reflect shifts in how public health dollars are used in a community.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” category includes Medicaid-billed services grouped by the type of care, defined by standardized HCPCS and CPT code groupings. For this analysis, each code was only counted in one service category using uniform code prefixes and numerical boundaries, ensuring related services are studied together, preventing duplication and maintaining accurate rankings over time.

While several service categories experienced higher Medicaid spending, Medicine Services and Procedures ranked fifth for total Medicaid payments in Greensboro in 2024.

Statewide in Alabama, the Medicine Services and Procedures category ranked fourth by total Medicaid payments for 2024.

Looking at the five years leading to 2024, Medicaid payments for the Medicine Services and Procedures category in Greensboro grew by $324, or 26.3%. Growth accelerated during certain periods, with especially strong year-over-year increases documented in 2022 and 2022.

The city’s spending for Medicine Services and Procedures was spread out, but concentrated heavily in a limited number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 36744 alone accounted for $909 in payments. Overall, the top 1 ZIP codes represented 100% of Medicaid payments in this category within Greensboro for the year.

Within this category, Medicaid spending was clustered in a small group of individual billing codes.

By comparison, Medicaid payments tied to Medicine Services and Procedures in Greensboro jumped 46.8% from 2023 to 2024, whereas Medicaid spending increased by 30.8% across all claim categories in the city during the same period.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid expenditures totaled approximately $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, about 18% of the nation’s total health spending, a steep rise from roughly $613.5 billion in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This increase marks about 40% growth over several years, fueled largely by higher enrollment and greater service use during and after the pandemic era.

Recent federal budget laws passed during the Trump administration propose major reductions to federal Medicaid funding and a restructuring of the program. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which became law in 2025, is expected to cut federal Medicaid expenditures by over $1 trillion over the next 10 years and implements new policies such as work requirements and higher cost-sharing, which may limit coverage and funds for some beneficiaries. These changes are likely to shift greater Medicaid costs to states and slow the pace of federal funding growth, even as Medicaid continues covering tens of millions of people across the country.

Note: HCPCS codes are provided for context within the category. Totals and rankings in this article are based on standardized service groupings rather than the individual billing codes listed.

Information in this report comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. The original data can be found here.