In 2024, Bushnell Medicaid providers submitted $1,308 in claims under the Procedures / Professional Services category, based on figures from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. This amount represents a 132.3% jump from 2023, when providers billed $563 for similar services.
Medicaid, a public health insurance initiative operated at the state level and funded jointly by federal and state governments, serves low-income people, seniors, children, and those with disabilities. It remains a major component of the national health care system.
With Medicaid payments sourced from taxpayers, fluctuations in local billing provide insight into the community allocation of public health care funds.
The “Procedures / Professional Services” grouping encompasses Medicaid-billed services defined by care type, using uniform HCPCS and CPT code groups. This review assigned each billing code to a specific service category with standardized prefixes and number ranges, ensuring comparability, minimizing duplication, and supporting accurate tracking across years.
While Medicaid outlays increased in several categories, Procedures / Professional Services ranked sixth by payment volume in Bushnell for 2024.
Statewide, Procedures / Professional Services held the 10th position among Medicaid payment categories in Florida in 2024.
Looking at the five years before 2024, Medicaid spending in Bushnell tied to Procedures / Professional Services climbed by $4,180, or 76.2%. Some years recorded steeper rises, especially noted in both 2022 and 2022.
Despite a citywide distribution of spending for Procedures / Professional Services, payments were heavily concentrated in a limited number of ZIP codes. For 2024, ZIP code 33513 accounted for $1,307 in Medicaid payments within the category, meaning all payments for this service type in Bushnell that year originated from the top ZIP code.
Within the broader Procedures / Professional Services category, most Medicaid payments were traced to a small set of billing codes.
Comparatively, Bushnell’s Procedures / Professional Services Medicaid payments surged 132.3% from 2023 to 2024, outpacing the 51.3% overall increase seen across all Medicaid claim categories in the city during the same interval.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, combined federal and state Medicaid spending totaled about $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023, which made up roughly 18% of total national health expenditures. This represents a sharp rise from about $613.5 billion in 2019, predating the COVID-19 pandemic.
This increase equates to around 40% growth over several years and is largely attributed to expanded enrollment and increased service use during and after the pandemic.
Major federal budget measures under the Trump administration have proposed significant reductions in federal Medicaid funding and structural changes. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” made law in 2025, is expected to cut federal Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion over the coming decade, adding work requirements and higher cost-sharing that could lower coverage levels and funding for some recipients. As a result, states are likely to bear more costs, and federal Medicaid support is expected to grow more slowly, though the program continues to cover tens of millions in the U.S.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $5,487 | – |
| 2021 | $1,703 | -69% |
| 2022 | $3,852 | 126.1% |
| 2023 | $563 | -85.4% |
| 2024 | $1,307 | 132.1% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evaluation and Management | $244,406 | 93.8% |
| 2 | Medicine Services and Procedures | $5,516 | 2.1% |
| 3 | Pathology and Laboratory Procedures | $3,141 | 1.2% |
| 4 | Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment | $2,854 | 1.1% |
| 5 | Surgery | $2,725 | 1% |
| 6 | Procedures / Professional Services | $1,307 | 0.5% |
| 7 | National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies | $691 | 0.3% |
| 8 | Drugs Administered Other than Oral Method | $57 | <0.1% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| G0439 | Ppps, subseq visit | $1,307 | 3 |
| G0442 | Annual alcohol screen 15 min | $0 | 20 |
| G0444 | Depression screen annual | $0 | 23 |
| G8417 | Calc bmi abv up param f/u | $0 | 17 |
| G8420 | Calc bmi norm parameters | $0 | 13 |
| G8427 | Docrev cur meds by elig clin | $0 | 20 |
| G8431 | Pos clin depres scrn f/u doc | $0 | 1 |
| G8510 | Scr dep neg, no plan reqd | $0 | 7 |
| G8753 | Sys bp > or = 140 | $0 | 1 |
| G8754 | Dias bp less 90 | $0 | 4 |
| G8783 | Bp scrn perf rec interval | $0 | 43 |
| G8950 | Pre-htn or htn doc, f/u indc | $0 | 1 |
| G9902 | Pt scrn tbco and id as user | $0 | 11 |
| G9903 | Pt scrn tbco id as non user | $0 | 10 |
| G9906 | Pt recv tbco cess interv | $0 | 11 |
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.
