Lake Tapps Medicaid spending for Medicine Services and Procedures jumps 55% to $6,731 in 2024

Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid Provider Spending database shows Medicaid providers in Lake Tapps billed $6,731 for services in the Medicine Services and Procedures category in 2024. This is a 55.4% rise over 2023, when $4,331 in claims were filed for the same type of care.

Medicaid, one of the country’s largest health insurance programs, is administered by the states and funded through federal and state government sources. It serves low-income families and individuals, seniors, children, and people with disabilities.

Since Medicaid spending is publicly funded, local billing fluctuations indicate how public health care resources are distributed throughout a given community.

The Medicine Services and Procedures category includes a set of services billed through Medicaid, defined by the care delivered and organized under standard HCPCS and CPT coding structures. Billing codes for this analysis were assigned to categories using code prefixes and numerical ranges, so related services could be tracked over time without overlap and with reliable category comparisons.

Though Medicaid payments rose in several categories, Medicine Services and Procedures represented the third-highest total in Lake Tapps for 2024.

Statewide, this category also placed third for Medicaid payment totals in Washington in 2024.

Looking at the five years prior to 2024, Medicaid payments for Medicine Services and Procedures in Lake Tapps increased by $6,731, amounting to 0% growth. Some periods saw faster hikes, with notable increases in both 2023 and 2022.

Spending within the Medicine Services and Procedures category was spread throughout Lake Tapps, but most payments were concentrated in a few ZIP codes. In 2024, ZIP code 98391 received $6,731 in Medicaid payments related to this category. The top ZIP code alone was responsible for 100% of Medicine Services and Procedures payments in Lake Tapps during the year.

A small group of distinct billing codes accounted for most of the Medicaid payments within the Medicine Services and Procedures category.

Compared with a 16.3% rise across all Medicaid claim categories in Lake Tapps over the same time frame, Medicine Services and Procedures payments climbed 55.4% from 2023 to 2024.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, total federal and state Medicaid expenditures reached approximately $871.7 billion during fiscal year 2023, representing about 18% of all U.S. health spending, up from $613.5 billion in 2019, before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This growth—roughly 40% in a few years—was primarily due to more people enrolling and increased usage throughout and following the pandemic.

Recent federal budget laws under the Trump administration included major proposals to curtail federal Medicaid funding and modify the program’s structure. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed in 2025, is set to cut more than $1 trillion in federal Medicaid funding over the coming decade and adds requirements such as work stipulations and higher cost-sharing, potentially leading to lower coverage for certain groups. These changes are expected to transfer more financial responsibility to states and slow the growth of federal contributions to Medicaid even as reliance on the program remains high among tens of millions of Americans.

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.