Kemp Medicaid spending on Medicine Services and Procedures rises to $472,781 in 2024

In 2024, health care providers in Kemp billed $472,781 to Medicaid for services grouped under the Medicine Services and Procedures category, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows. That total is a 10.7% rise compared to 2023, when $427,175 was billed for these services.

Medicaid, a state-administered public health insurance funded by federal and state governments together, covers low-income people and families, seniors, children, and those with disabilities, making it a major segment of the U.S. health system.

Because taxpayer dollars support Medicaid payments, local billing activity shows how public health care spending is distributed in a given area.

The “Medicine Services and Procedures” category includes types of care grouped through standardized HCPCS and CPT codes. For this report, each billing code fell into only one service category based on consistent code prefixes and value ranges, so similar services could be analyzed together without double counting and preserving consistent year-to-year rankings.

While Medicaid expenditures increased across service categories, Medicine Services and Procedures accounted for the highest Medicaid payments in Kemp in 2024.

Texas as a whole saw Medicine Services and Procedures ranked fifth among all Medicaid categories by payment totals in 2024.

Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Kemp grew by $388,889 over the five years leading up to 2024, a 463.6% increase. Spending climbed sharply in certain years—particularly in 2020 and 2021.

Most of Kemp’s spending for Medicine Services and Procedures was recorded in specific ZIP codes, with ZIP code 75143 seeing $472,780 in claims. That single ZIP accounted for 100% of Medicaid claims in this service category across the city for 2024.

A narrow range of billing codes represented much of the Medicaid spending within the Medicine Services and Procedures category in 2024.

Looking at changes over the past year, Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Kemp increased 10.7%, while payments for all Medicaid claim types in the city rose 7.7% during that time.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data show combined federal and state Medicaid expenditures totaled about $871.7 billion in the 2023 fiscal year. Medicaid made up roughly 18% of health spending nationally, a significant jump from about $613.5 billion in 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic.

This growth amounts to a rise of about 40% over a few years, heavily influenced by Medicaid enrollment expansions and higher medical needs throughout and after the pandemic.

Recent federal budgets under the Trump administration featured key changes aimed at reducing federal Medicaid funding and redesigning the program. For example, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is expected to cut federal Medicaid payouts by more than $1 trillion over 10 years and adds measures such as work requirements and increased beneficiary cost-sharing. These rules could limit coverage and reduce federal funding for some, increasing pressure on states as the program continues to support tens of millions nationwide.

Note: HCPCS codes are provided for context in this category. Group totals and rankings are based on summarized service classifications, not individual billing codes.

Data for this article is from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database. The original source data is available here.