Providers in Los Molinos billed $844 to Medicaid for Medicine Services and Procedures in 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. This was a 569.8% rise over the $126 billed in 2023 for identical services.
Medicaid, a public health insurance program administered by individual states and funded jointly by state and federal governments, provides coverage for low-income people, families, seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities and is a major component of the U.S. health care system.
Because taxpayer dollars back Medicaid, patterns in local billing offer insights into how public funds are used for health care in different areas.
The “Medicine Services and Procedures” section includes Medicaid-billed treatments grouped by care type, organized using standard HCPCS and CPT coding. For this report, each code was classified into a single service category by identifying code prefixes and numeric ranges, grouping similar procedures while preventing double counting and maintaining clear rankings throughout the years.
Medicaid expenditures went up in several service categories, putting Medicine Services and Procedures as the third-highest by total Medicaid payments in Los Molinos for 2024.
Statewide, Medicine Services and Procedures also ranked third by total Medicaid payments in California in 2024.
During the five-year period leading to 2024, payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Los Molinos increased by $844, or 0%. The pace of spending gains picked up in certain intervals, especially with sharp rises year over year in 2023 and 2022.
Spending for this category was spread across Los Molinos but mainly concentrated in a small number of ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 96055 reported $844, making up 100.1% of all city Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures that year.
Within Medicine Services and Procedures, Medicaid reimbursements focused primarily on just a few individual billing codes.
In Los Molinos, the 569.8% increase for Medicine Services and Procedures payments between 2024 and 2023 significantly outpaced the 5.6% change seen citywide across all Medicaid categories for that period.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total federal and state Medicaid spending hit roughly $871.7 billion in fiscal year 2023—about 18% of total national health spending and up significantly from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
This rise equals more than 40% growth within just a few years, with much of the increase driven by higher enrollment and use of services related to and following the pandemic.
The Trump administration’s most recent federal budget laws have proposed major cuts and changes to the Medicaid program. For example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” enacted in 2025, is slated to reduce federal Medicaid spending by over $1 trillion over the next decade, incorporating stricter work requirements and higher cost-sharing for some recipients. These moves are expected to put more financial pressure on states and slow the rise of federal Medicaid funding, even as the program remains vital for millions in the U.S.
| Year | Total Medicaid Payments | % Change From Previous Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $0 | – |
| 2023 | $126 | – |
| 2024 | $844 | 568.8% |
| Rank | Category | Medicaid Payments | Share of City Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Codes Established for State Medicaid Agencies | $365,347 | 94.9% |
| 2 | Evaluation and Management | $18,323 | 4.8% |
| 3 | Medicine Services and Procedures | $844 | 0.2% |
| 4 | Pathology and Laboratory Procedures | $418 | 0.1% |
| 5 | Drugs Administered Other than Oral Method | $57 | <0.1% |
| HCPCS Code | Description | Medicaid Payments | Claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90656 | Iiv3 vacc no prsv 0.5 ml im | $844 | 2 |
Note: HCPCS codes are displayed for context only within the category. All rankings and category amounts in this story use standardized groupings of service categories, rather than focusing on individual codes.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database provided the information for this article. The complete source data is available here.
